The 'Saturday Night Live' skit 'A Trump Christmas' featured Phil Hartman as Donald Trump and Jan Hooks as Ivana Trump on Dec. 10, 1988.Raymond Bonar—NBC/Getty ImagesDarrell Hammond played Donald Trump during the "Donald Trump's Address" skit on Jan. 10, 2004.Mary Ellen Matthews—NBC/Getty ImagesDonald Trump hosted 'Saturday Night Live' on April 3, 2004. He appeared in the 'Donald Trump's House of Wings' sketch with Amy Poehler, Kenan Thompson, Seth Meyers and Maya Rudolph.Mary Ellen Matthews—NBC/Getty ImagesDarrell Hammond as Donald Trump, right, appears with Donald Trump as Jerry the Janitor in the SNL sketch 'The Prince and the Pauper' on April 3, 2004.Mary Ellen Matthews—NBC/Getty ImagesDarrell Hammond and Paris Hilton appeared as Donald Trump and Malania Knauss during "The New Trump Family" skit on Feb. 5, 2005.Dana Edelson—NBC/Getty ImagesSNL's 'Domino's Ad Shoot' skit from May 7, 2005, featured Darrell Hammond as Donald Trump.Dana Edelson—NBC/Getty ImagesComedian Darrell Hammond appeared as Donald Trump during the skit 'Trump's Press Conference' on Jan. 13, 2007.Dana Edelson—NBC/Getty ImagesThe SNL skit 'Trump Steaks' featured Darrell Hammond as Donald Trump and Molly Shannon as Melania Knauss on May 12, 2007.Dana Edelson—NBC/Getty ImagesComedians Taran Killam, as Donald Trump, and Cecily Strong, as Melania Trump, appeared in the sketch 'Trump Cold Open' on Oct. 3, 2015.Dana Edelson—NBC/Getty Images
Donald Trump is set to host Saturday Night Live this week, but the presidential candidate told CNN’s Chris Cuomo on Wednesday’s episode of New Day that he was initially set to appear in a single sketch.
“It actually started off as a skit,” Trump said. “And I said, ‘All right, I’ll do it.’ And they took it up to Lorne Michaels, who’s an amazing guy, he’s run Saturday Night Live brilliantly for many years, and he’s a friend of mine. He said, ‘Well, wait a minute: Donald’s agreed to do this skit. Would he do the whole thing?’ “
As we now know, Donald would gladly do “the whole thing”: He told Cuomo he agreed partly because SNL is “iconic.” “It’s an honor,” he said.
Watch the interview here (they start discussing SNL at about the eight-minute mark).
