NBC News was forced to give former President Donald Trump airtime on Sunday after the outlet violated Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules by giving Vice President Kamala Harris a spot on Saturday Night Live (SNL).
The roughly 60-second Trump ad came Sunday toward the end of NBC’s broadcast of NASCAR’s Xfinity 500 at Martinsville Speedway.
Trump, donning a “Make America Great Again” hat, highlighted the failed economic policies of the Biden-Harris administration, the recent disastrous jobs report, and warned a “depression” was looming.
“We have to straighten out our country, we have to close our borders, we have to lower our taxes, we have to get rid of inflation,” Trump said as he stood in front of several American flags. “And we’re going to do it. Just remember, Kamala and her friends broke it — I’ll fix it.”
But the seemingly last-minute ad slot provided to Trump doesn’t compare to the blatant election interference NBC News engaged in on Saturday when it provided Harris with a very pro-Kamala 90-second time slot.
SNL opened by making a mockery of Trump and vice presidential hopeful J.D. Vance before Maya Rudolph — playing Harris — began shilling for the Democrat ticket. Nearly six and a half minutes into the obvious Harris ad, Harris herself appears to give words of wisdom to the fake Harris.
“I’m just here to remind you, you got this, because you can do something your opponent cannot do — you can open doors,” Harris says to Rudolph, before Rudolph
