When Donald Trump was invited to host “Saturday Night Live” just months after launching his presidential campaign in 2015, the decision stunned staffers and left months of lingering tensions behind the scenes, per The Daily Beast. Previewing the upcoming book “Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live” by Susan Morrison, the publication notes that then-writer Tim Robinson was quoted as saying series creator and showrunner Lorne Michaels had “lost his fucking mind” bringing Trump to the show. Robinson, who would go on to co-create and star in Netflix’s sketch series “I Think You Should Leave” in 2019,
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