Anti-Trump protesters descend on NBC headquarters over SNL appearance

*There werent hundreds of protesters, it was more like dozens. But they delivered more than half a million signatures in a petition that demands that NBC and Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels remove Donald Trump from hosting this weekend’s SNL program. VL

By Adam Gabbatt, The Guardian

Protesters gathered outside NBC’s New York City headquarters on Wednesday evening in an effort to have Donald Trump dropped from this weekend’s Saturday Night Live.

Holding printed signs with the message “SNL – stop the hate – Dump Trump” demonstrators from several Latino organizations chanted for the network to disinvite the GOP frontrunner from the show.

Trump is due to host SNL on Saturday, but his appearance has been criticized by a number of groups. The 69-year-old business mogul has made a series of slurs against immigrants, including the allegation that Mexico is sending “drug dealers” and “rapists” to the US.

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