{"id":510474,"date":"2026-07-05T05:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T05:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/510474\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T05:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T05:28:09","slug":"snl-savaged-for-promoting-maga-host-on-july-4th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/510474\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018SNL\u2019 Savaged for Promoting MAGA Host on July 4th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Saturday Night Live fans weren\u2019t laughing when the legendary comedy series reposted a three-year-old July 4th sketch featuring outed MAGA comedian Nate Bargatze as George Washington on Saturday. The program isn\u2019t airing a rerun on July 4th during its summer hiatus, so the viral 2023 \u201cWashington\u2019s Dream\u201d sketch posted on SNL\u2019s Instagram may have been offered up as a bit of substitute humor. It didn\u2019t work. Hordes of SNL followers attacked the post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday Night Live fans weren\u2019t laughing when the legendary comedy series reposted a three-year-old July 4th sketch featuring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,24838,61815,16096,111,139,69,254097,437],"class_list":["post-510474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-george-washington","tag-maga","tag-nate-bargatze","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-summer-hiatus","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}