Vice President Kamala Harris is showing her full support for recycling — jokes, that is.
The presidential hopeful’s surprise appearance on “Saturday Night Live” has been accused of blatantly ripping off a 2015 TV skit by her rival, former President Donald Trump — as well as ill-fated turns by Hillary Clinton, including one just before she lost to Trump.
Harris appeared in the late-night show’s cold open, when she addressed her fictional self — portrayed by Maya Rudolph — through the other side of a dressing room mirror.
Viewers were quick to point out how the skit was virtually identical to Trump’s sketch on Jimmy Fallon’s “The Tonight Show” when he was running for president in 2015.
Fallon, who made his name on SNL, portrayed Trump talking to a mirror — with the real estate mogul on the other side, identical to Harris’ skit Saturday.
“Kamala ripped off the same bit Trump …and Trump’s was double the length,” radio host Ari Hoffman scoffed on X.
“Kamala on SNL can’t even be ORIGINAL… had to plagiarize Trump and his much funnier skit. She’s soooo CRINGE,” another user commented.
SNL viewers also pointed out the parallels between Harris’ last-minute bid for public affection and Hillary Clinton’s own stints on the show in 2008 and 2016.
Clinton was gunning for the Democratic nomination 16 years ago when she did her first SNL spot next to Amy Poehler, who spoofed the former first lady’s trademark cackle — just as SNL did Saturday with Harris.
In the skit, Clinton wondered “do I really laugh like that?” – a gag that was repeated nearly word-for-word during Harris’ appearance.
“SNL writers must be as lazy as everyone thinks they are,” one viewer noted of the joke.
Others suggested Harris was asking for trouble by copying Clinton in going on the show, giving that her Democratic predecessor went on to failure after both appearances, losing the nomination in 2008 to Barack Obama, and the presidential race to Trump in 2016.
“Kamala Harris tempting fate by going on SNL means there’s a real possibility we get Maya Rudolph doing Hallelujah on a piano next week,” podcaster Stephen L. Miller joked, referring to Kate McKinnon’s post-election ballad in 2016.
Harris’ surprise appearance didn’t just get flak from viewers — the senior Republican commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission blasted it as a “clear and blatant effort” to evade the Equal Time rule that mandates opposing candidates get the same air time.
Trump’s campaign also blasted her decision to again make a fluffy public show just days before a crucial election.
“Kamala Harris has nothing substantive to offer the American people, so that’s why she’s living out her warped fantasy cosplaying with her elitist friends on Saturday Night Leftists as her campaign spirals down the drain into obscurity,” spokesman Steven Cheung told Fox News.
“For the last four years, Kamala’s destructive policies have led to untold misery and hurt for all Americans. She broke it, and President Trump will fix it.”
Harris held campaign rallies in Atlanta and Charlotte, NC. earlier Saturday before she traveled to 30 Rock for her “SNL” spot. She left the building shortly after her appearance and landed in Detroit early Sunday.
