Donald Trump is calling Ben Carson’s bluff with “Saturday Night Live.”
While Carson has said repeatedly that he would not make an appearance on the show during the campaign, Trump doesn’t believe that for a second, telling the “TODAY Show” Thursday that “of course” his GOP rival would do it. However, as Trump argues, he doesn’t think SNL would ask him to do it.
“He said he would never do it, but of course he would do it,” Trump told host Savannah Guthrie. “They didn’t ask him to do it, and, you know, ‘Saturday Night Live’ is a special thing. It’s like being on ’60 Minutes.’ I was on ’60 Minutes’ a month ago. There are certain iconic brands, iconic things, and he would certainly do it if he was asked.”
“I mean, every president probably that you can think of and many of the candidates have done it,” Trump said. “But I don’t think they’ll ask him, and … but I know if they did ask him, he would do it.”
Trump’s comments come a day after SNL released a promo in which Trump called Carson a “complete and total loser,” which the show took down off it’s YouTube page not long after. When told about the promo, Carson said those kind of comments belong “in grade school.”
In the past, Carson has said he would not go on “Saturday Night Live” during the campaign, saying that “the presidency of the United States is a very serious thing,” and that “I don’t even want to begin to put it in the lightness of comedy.”
