Twitter Reacts To Tina Fey's Solution To America's Alt-Right Problem
Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon returned to "Saturday Night Live: Weekend Update" on Thursday as former US presidents Thomas Jefferson and George Washington to mock president Donald Trump and confederate generals, but it was University of Virginia alumna Tina Fey who literally took the cake.
The actress joined Colin Host and Michael Che to condemn the violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last weekend which left one woman dead and 19 others injured.
Fey, who graduated from the university in 1992, also ripped into Trump for his condemnation of "violence on many sides."
“It broke my heart to see these evil forces descend upon Charlottesville. Then our president, Donald John Trump — which I don’t think people talk enough about what a stupid, jackass name that is. Donald John? Whatever! He gets away with it because he’s gorgeous. Anyway, Donny John comes out and he says that he condemns violence on many sides, and I’m feeling sick because I’ve seen ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ and I wasn’t confused by it. Nazis are always bad. I don’t care what you say,” she said.
What is sheet-caking?
She also provided a simple yet effective way for all Americans to deal with other 'alt-right' rallies planned for this Saturday: Sheet-caking.
Rather than going to such rallies to protest, she asked people to visit a local bakery instead. “Order a cake with the American flag on it like this one and just eat it, Colin,” she said.
With this, she attacked a sheet cake with a fork and then her hands, and asked people to take her lead. With her mouth full, she also bashed white supremacists, House Speaker Paul Ryan and conservative pundit Ann Coulter, whom she termed a “yard-sale Barbie."
“Sheet-caking is a grassroots movement. Most women I know have been doing it once a week since the election,” she said.
Fey's furious act seemed to capture the frustration of many Americans in the past week, with the hashtags “#sheetcakemovement” and “sheetcaking” began circulating on social media soon after.
Users on Twitter were also up for making it the new protest movement.
“I support Tina Fey's new #sheetcaking protest movement. A sheet cake a week will only bring more love to the world,” a Twitter user wrote.
Here are some of the best reactions on Twitter.
“In conclusion, I really want to encourage all good, sane Americans to treat these rallies this weekend like the opening of a thoughtful movie with two female leads: Don’t show up,” Fey said, before signing off.
Fallon and Meyers in their cameos as Washington and Jefferson, respectively, lampooned Trump for his tweet comparing Confederate generals like Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson to the founding fathers.
Meanwhile, in a series of tweets, Trump condemned the removal of controversial Confederate monuments. He tweeted he was sad to see the history and culture of the country being ripped apart.
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