Kenan Thompson informs friends in a DNC skit about Project 2025 | Presidential Election 2024 | #dnc

alright alright alright what's up DNC alright y'all remember this big old book from before when Colorado governor Jerry Pole has ripped the page out of it this is Project 2025 the Republican blueprint for a second Trump term it is a yeah yeah boo haha it is a real document that you can read for yourself at Kamala Harris com forward slash project 2025 you ever seen a document that could kill a small animal and democracy at the same time here it is you know how when you download an app and there are hundreds of pages there that you don't read is just the terms and conditions and you just click agree right well these are the terms and conditions of a second Trump presidency you vote for him you vote for all of this let's take a look all right do we got Matt here with us tonight is Matt here hey there he is Matt how are you sir all right Matt now Matt I understand that you work as an AV tech in Nevada and you make a decent hourly rage is that right oh I don't know if we can hear Matt can we hear Matt so who's gonna fix it keep speaking Matt so we can hear you uh huh okay that's good I guess we're gonna move on from Matt and this is Becky Becky can we hear you I came in and it's great to be here thank you all right good now Becky you're married correct I am me and my wife have been together for about 8 years oh that's amazing very very cute thanks but I have got some bad news for you I hate that on page 5 84 project 2025 calls for the elimination of protections for LGBTQ+ Americans so yeah right back to the Stone Age I'm afraid so right back to the Stone Age that's terrible yeah it is thank you Becky for being here and making that wonderful point all right next up we have Nirvana Nirvana are you with us and your people are with us as well all right good now Nirvana I understand that you are on insulin to manage your diabetes yes yes and thanks to President Biden and Vice President Harris I only pay $35 a month for my insulin that is great that is great but on page 4 65 Project 2025 calls for millions of people like yourself to pay more for prescription drugs like insulin why why well I guess maybe to help big farmer make more money that they can donate to Republican politicians I assume yeah that makes sense yes unfortunately it does make sense all right let's talk to Anita Anita are you there yes hello Anita hello and Anita what do you do for a living I'm an OB GYN who delivers babies and does surgery an OB GYN she is an O b g y n that delivers babies uh oh uh oh yeah it's bad news isn't it it sure is on page 4:59 Project 2025 resurrects a law from the 1800s called the Comstock Act to ban abortion nationwide and throw healthcare providers in jail oh my God that is awful yes it is awful all right let's do one more is Sharia with us Sharia are you there hey Kenan I'm here yes Sharia I love it all right let's talk to you um I understand that you work for the federal government yes sir I'm in the United States Department of education I'm a proud civil servant and a proud union president she works with the department of education and she's a proud civil servant well unfortunately for you on page 78 Project 2025 calls for President Trump to purge the civil service of everyone who isn't a MAGA loyalist are you a MAGA loyalist now Kena absolutely not I I'm just I'm just asking I mean you might as well be because also page 3 19 calls for the complete elimination of the department of education I yeah this is a there's a bunch of stuff in here but that's all we have time for at the moment just remember everything that we just talked about is very real it is in this book slash project 2025 and most importantly you can stop it from ever happening by electing Kamala Harris as the next president of the United States Saturday Night Live superstar Kenan Thompson delivering a comic rendition on policy plans for the second Trump term we should note of course that President Trump in his campaign deny that Project 2025 is the blueprint for a second Trump term although Danny Bash we should note and Abby Philip there certainly are a lot of Trump people involved in the construction of Project 2025 and Mr Trump has said very positive things about that that project and never mind that if you just look at some of the specifics that they were talking about eliminating the department of education that's something that Donald Trump talks about on the stump he's completely okay with that yeah I mean I think that it's fair to say Project 2025 is outside of the Trump campaign but it's also the truth that this is the basically the skeleton of what a Trump transition would look like a personnel the ideas maybe it won't be all of it but but it's in there and I think that the Democrats have successfully made Project 2025 almost like a household name at least among their base and perhaps among among people who are a little bit more uh informed about politics and about current events that's a problem for Trump and for Republicans which is why they push back so aggressively against the idea that it has anything to do with that and there was something that uh that you noticed uh both you noticed about the the five real people uh that Keenan was speaking with uh so humorously uh there was something that four of them had in common as opposed to the fifth and that is four of them are women and the gender gap in American politics has all has been trending very strongly for years but this year at least according to polls it is so strong the women the women vote is overwhelmingly for Harris the male vote uh overwhelmingly for for Trump though not as much yes and you know there's the gender gap then there's the the idea that for the last month the Democratic Party has been rallying around a woman at the top of the ticket which is uh the only other time they did it which is in 2016 and it has been noteworthy to see how they are learning about what to do and how to confront Donald Trump as the opponent to a woman 2016 and now very different campaigns very different female candidates but they are doing so in trying to put forward um male figures Tim Walls being one of them Doug Amhoff last night who um can speak to men out there who um might not be the sort of testosterone laden you know gun toting kind of guy who wants to listen to Hulk Hogan and the kind of um players that came out at the RNC or might want to listen to that but also in addition understand that it's okay in 2024 to be a man comfortable in his own skin who supports a woman and that's something that they really are trying to work on with male voters beyond the base Abby we were talking about this earlier the different definitions of masculinity in 2024 and what we saw at the Trump convention um which was as you know somebody I forget forget exactly who said it testosterone uh with Kid Rock and the Ultimate Fighting Champion guy yeah that guy and Hulk Hogan uh who Danna White and all remember Hulk Hogan actually ripped off his shirt and he had another shirt underneath which I think is not exactly what the rip off the shirt thing is supposed to be but in any case I digress um you do it it's not you know I mean I just on the Hulk Hogan of it all I mean look who by the way said something racist yeah I was just gonna say I mean just recently he he drunkenly asked a crowd whether they wanted him to body slam Kamala Harris so when we talk about the kind of testosterone that they put on display at the RNC that's what it was there is a contrast that is gonna be on display tonight here I mean they're gonna be people associated with Planned Parenthood the Human Rights Campaign the LGBTQ+ organization they are gonna be putting those people on the stage to talk about a different version of America but for Democrats it's always this this balancing act between um beating the need for their base to to hear these messages of affirmation about a sort of rainbow coalition if you will of their party but they do also have to talk to the people who uh maybe they're not comfortable with the Hulk Hogans but they do want the party to speak to that