Seriously, how hard is it to google a word you’re unfamiliar with? Apparently too difficult for the writers of SNL, since during last week, cast member Colin Jost embarrassingly said this live on air while making fun of one of Trump’s latest speeches:
“Trump did have a slight stumble this week while talking about banks, and he introduced an interesting new term called de-bank,” Jost said. “I don’t know what the hell de-bank means, but you might have to take ‘de-ambulance’ to see ‘de-doctor.’”
As many of you may know, or if you don’t maybe you googled the term like I admittedly had to, de-banking or de-risking is a very real term which is used to refer to banks closing people’s accounts, on occasion without appeal, after gauging them to be legal, financial, or reputational threats.
The clip has since gone viral, with social media mocking the show for not understanding the increasingly commonly used term, but I don’t necessarily agree with the majority. I don’t think It’s embarrassing to not know what a word means. I actually would bet a fair few of you, like myself, had to look it up. What is even more embarrassing than what the rest of the internet is mocking the writers of SNL for though, is not even taking a second to double check that the thing they were mocking wasn’t a real term in the first place! You work on nationally televised TV, seriously how did no one catch this? I have a guess…
As is common on the majority of media outlets these days, the writers were too excited to have something new to make fun of former president Trump for, so much so that they must have forgotten how a search engine functions. Oops!
Hopefully next time they try to take a shot at Trump, they’ll remember that it takes about 10 seconds to look it up, or at worse case go old school and open a damn dictionary.