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Stormy Daniels Made a Cameo on 'Saturday Night Live' to Troll Donald Trump


There were a ton of celebrity cameos during Saturday Night Live’s cold open sketch last night, which focused on President Trump’s payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels. From Ben Stiller, who played Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, to Jimmy Fallon and Scarlett Johansson, who impersonated Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, the surprise appearances kept us on our feet throughout the seven-minute sketch. But out of all the cameos, the most surprising one was that of Stephanie Clifford— professionally known as Stormy Daniels—who played herself.

The sketch began with Ben Stiller as Cohen on a “secure” phone call with Alec Baldwin’s President Trump. With FBI agents listening in on their conversation, “Cohen” explains he’s concerned by Trump’s ever-changing explanation of the payments to Stormy Daniels. So they call up former mayor of New York City—and recent addition to Trump’s legal team—Rudy Giuliani, who is expertly portrayed by cast member Kate McKinnon. (Is there anyone she can’t impersonate?)

Throughout the sketch, a ton of other phone calls get in the way of their three-way call. First, Cohen accidentally calls Trump’s personal physician, Dr. Bornstein (played by former SNL cast member Martin Short). Trump then fields a call by White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders (Aidy Bryant) while Cohen has quick one-off conversations with several people in Trump’s inner circle, including First Lady Melania Trump (Cecily Strong), Omarosa Manigault (Leslie Jones), Vice President Mike Pence (Beck Bennett), and Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner.

Finally, Trump instructs his lawyer to call Stormy Daniels to “fix this once and for all.”

And with that, the real Stormy Daniels appears on screen. Cohen asks Daniels if she’s alone, while Trump interrupts and asks her what she’s wearing (cue eye roll). The president promptly hangs up on Cohen so that it’s just the two of them. “So, what up, girl?” Trump says, before asking what she needs to make all of this go away. Daniels retorts “a resignation.”

She also has a little warning for the President: “I know you don’t believe in climate change, but a storm’s a-comin’, baby.”

Watch the trolling ensue below.

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Sarah Hyland Had the Perfect Response to This Troll Who Thought Birth Control Is Just for Sex


Sarah Hyland has never been afraid to serve up some righteous justice/logic on Twitter. Case in point, her spot-on response to paparazzi who were trying to get her to bash Modern Family co-star Ariel Winter. “y’all digging for something you’re never going to get,” Hyland tweeted as a response, adding in the laugh-cry emoji for a splash of extra defiance. Then, there was that time this summer when she burned Vice President Mike Pence after he touched a casual bit of space equipment at NASA that clearly had a “DO NOT TOUCH” sign in front of it (the capital letters were real). So when a Twitter troll showed up on her feed in support of President Trump‘s egregiously awful rollback on the Affordable Care Act’s birth control mandate, she was not about to let him get away with it.

It started on Friday, when Hyland tweeted some outrage about the stripped contraception protections into the Twitterverse:

Of course, those on both sides of the issue had plenty to say, but one fan in particular really got her goat. His tweet has since been deleted, for reasons that will shortly become clear. But Hyland’s response hammered home an important point: birth control is not just for women looking to prevent pregnancy when they have sex. It’s for women looking to control abnormal or irregular periods, endometriosis, and numerous other medical conditions that all relate to the lovely functions performed by cisgender women’s reproductive parts.

The ability to afford birth control—or, thanks to the Affordable Care Act, the guarantee that it will be free through insurance—is necessary for some women who experience chronic suffering when it comes time for their periods. The user who sent the tweets later said that he tweeted apologies twice (and maybe he’s shifted his perspective on the matter after a torrent of tweets directed at his misfire).

Unfortunately, however, the fact that birth control has important, critical purposes beyond preventing pregnancy is something that the men who still largely control women’s healthcare just don’t get.

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Lucy Hale Had an Amazing Response to This Body-Shaming Troll


Ah, Twitter: the one thing you can always count on—besides President Donald Trump using the platform as his own communications department—is trolls. So many trolls. They comment with spite and hostility on everything from politics to the weather to celebrity bodies. That last one, in particular, happens a lot—and this time, a Twitter user came for Lucy Hale with an unsolicited opinion about her body. Luckily, the Pretty Little Liars actress had the perfect response to put him in his place.

It should be apparent by now, in a culture where body positivity is on the rise, but body-shaming isn’t just about one end of the scale: some women deal with comments telling them they should eat more and “put some meat on those bones.” Either way, body-shaming can be triggering for someone who’s dealt with disordered eating—as is the case with Hale. In 2012, she talked about struggling with an eating disorder and body image issues, and she continues to fight her insecurities: take, for example, a picture of her and her dad she posted in June, where she called herself “fat” in the comments section. Hey, we all have insecurities—but it’s not for others to police our bodies and make them worse. (“Sometimes we can be our own worst enemy,” Hale later responded when the inevitable backlash hit.)

So: on Friday, Hale posted this pic of her with a quote from Poltergeist.

And then TEDDY FORTE (his caps, not ours) came along:

Hale, however, was quick to shut him down:

After he responded with a sarcastic “Neat,” followed by a thumbs-up emoji and related GIF—you know, because human empathy wasn’t an option for him—she came back with a snappier see-ya:

TEDDY FORTE then started bullying another user who had come to Hale’s defense (“Got no come back so you send a gif,” he replied to FORTE’s comment), and Hale encouraged him to block the troll for good:

Twitter users also spoke out against TEDDY FORTE, and made some very valid points—including the reminder that you’re not obligated to look a certain way in order to please someone.

Importantly, Hale’s response also empowered other Twitter users.

Don’t let the bastards grind you down, Hale.

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