What did SNL alum Victoria Jackson say about Tom Hanks' recent MAGA sketch?

On February 16, 2025, several current and former cast members, hosts, and musical guests from across SNL's (Saturday Night Live's) fifty seasons gathered to celebrate its milestone 50th season. The event, known as the SNL 50th Anniversary Special, featured appearances from Meryl Streep, Jon Hamm, Ryan Reynolds, Drew Barrymore, Robert De Niro, Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin, and others.

Veteran actor Tom Hanks also participated in the special, reprising his role as a Make America Great Again (MAGA) supporter in a revival of the Black Jeopardy! sketch, which originally aired in 2016. Hosted once again by Kenan Thompson as Darnell Hayes, this version of Black Jeopardy! featured Leslie Jones, Tracy Morgan, and Eddie Murphy.

Hanks' character, Doug, appeared wearing a red MAGA hat, a flannel shirt, and a bald eagle T-shirt. In a clip of the sketch that has gone viral online, Doug is seen hesitating and stepping back from the show's host, who is Black. In the original 2016 sketch, Doug initially backed away when the host tried to shake his hand before eventually giving in.

In his reprised role as Doug, Hanks delivers his line on SNL before shaking Thompson’s hand:

“Don’t like that, whoa, whoa, whoa.”

At another point in the sketch, Doug says he will start a game show called White Jeopardy, to which Thompson's Darnell responds:

"No, "we don't need it. We don't need it."

The sketch faced backlash from several Trump supporters online, including former SNL cast member, Victoria Jackson. Calling the whole thing "stupid" in an interview with TMZ, the SNL alum who was a cast member from 1986 to 1992, was also offended by the s*xual vulgarity on the show.

Pointing out that the show appeared to cater to all sides, she then joked, "Did anyone make fun of the Kamala supporters?!"

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Tom Hanks delivers semi-tribute to SNL sketches that have "aged horribly" during the latest episode

While hosting the “in memoriam” segment of the show, tuxedo-clad Hanks looked back upon the “SNL characters and sketches that have aged horribly.”

While sharing a montage of the show’s problematic characters, he included John Belushi’s samurai and other moments that were branded as “sexism,” “child molestation” and “Ethnic stereotypes.”

The sequence also included having “problematic guests” on the show like R. Kelly, Diddy, Jared Fogel, Robert Blake and O.J. Simpson.

Tom Hanks also made headlines after he and his wife, Rita Wilson, hilariously stormed out of the SNL 50 concert that was held at the Radio City Music Hall. As Jimmy Fallon said on-stage that there would be no awards being handed out, the couple were seen walking out of the theater brazenly. Fallon then said on stage:

“Tom? Rita? We lost Tom Hanks and Rita. Sorry. It wasn’t their fault.”

The Forest Gump actor had not addressed the criticism he was receiving online at the time of writing this article.