Nikki Haley Joins ‘SNL’ Skit to Mock Trump, Jokes About Controversial Slavery Comments

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Nikki Haley should have known better.

If she was ever serious about challenging Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination, the former United Nations ambassador and South Carolina governor should have known the audience she’s trying to reach.

And it doesn’t exactly overlap with “Saturday Night Live.”

But that’s where Haley turned up on Saturday, in a cold open that flopped nearly as badly as the sketch show’s disastrous attack on Rep. Elise Stefanik’s exposure of tolerance for anti-Semitism at major American universities back in December.

The skit had all the earmarks of a standard “SNL” offering lately — it was heavy-handed, it was spectacularly not funny, and, of course, it bashed Trump.

But it also had Haley, who not only attacked the front-runner for the GOP nomination to curry favor with an audience that despises them both, but who also chose to make a fool of herself in the process.

Check it out here. Haley’s appearance comes at about the 5-minute mark:

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