'I was on TV show with Donald Trump - he can't really read and we were all laughing at him'
'I was on TV show with Donald Trump - he can't really read and we were all laughing at him'
Robin CottleSat, August 22, 2026 at 2:27 PM UTC
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A celebrity spoke less than glowingly about Donald Trump -Credit:Getty Images
A celebrity who appeared on a TV show with Donald Trump revealed what the president is really like when the cameras stop rolling - and it doesn't make pretty reading.
Trump has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons in recent days as his relationship with devoted aide Natalie Harp finds itself under the spotlight.
But a resurfaced clip with comedian Pete Davidson, who spilled the beans on Trump's stint hosting Saturday Night Live, is unlikely to provide him with much respite. It comes after White House staff were accused of 'hiding Trump's enormous tree trunk ankles' from the cameras.
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The actor spoke to Opie Radio about Trump's appearance in 2015, shortly after he announced he was running for the presidency first time around. Pete claimed the politician struggled to read the script so kept on improvising, sometimes with hilarious results.
He said: "So he's like, he doesn't really know how to read. And me loves to improv. So during like the table read. Before he had to read each line, and he's the host so he's at everything, he would go, uh, I'm not gonna say this, I think I'm gonna say it the way I wanna say it, is that okay? Is that okay, Lauren?"
Trump with a couple of lookalikes on SNL -Credit:SNL
Pete then went on to tell a funny anecdote which followed from his apparent reading struggles.
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He continued: "This is my favourite part. There's a sketch we wrote where he's at Disneyland with his daughter, and the line is, 'let's get outta here, turkey legs?' Like, let's go get turkey legs.
"And he doesn't know how to read. So he went, 'let's get out of here, turkey legs.' He called his daughter 'turkey legs'.
"And then he looked up, like he doesn't get it. Like, he thinks if everybody's laughing with him, but we're laughing at him. He would be like: 'I did a good job, right?' He constantly kept saying how amazing the ratings were going to be."
Trump's appearance in 2015 was his second having first hosted the hit late-night sketch show in 2004.
Trump appeared on SNL after announcing he was running for president -Credit:AFP via Getty Images
Trump's stint in 2015 took place almost exactly 12 months before the following year's election. It came around five months after Trump announced he would run for the Republican party's nomination.
In a separate chat about his experience with Trump, Pete told a story where he claims the president "faked a phone call" to boast that his latest book had reached number one in the charts.
Speaking to Complex's Open Late, he explained: "He was weird all week. He faked a phone call. In the middle of the table reading, he has a flip phone and right as we started, he was like, 'hello'. He goes, 'oh, fantastic. Okay, great'. And then he hung up and he goes, 'hey everybody, my book just went number one.'
"And we were all like, 'yo, that phone didn't ring.' And also, how did he have time to say that? You answered and went, 'yup, oh my God.' He didn't even go, 'hello?'"
Source: “AOL Entertainment”
