Hollywood actor Brad Pitt ridiculed statements by US President Donald Trump about the coronavirus pandemic in Saturday Night Live.
The actor, in the image of the head of the United States COVID-19 control commission and the country’s main infectious disease specialist Anthony Fauchi, commented on Trump’s words that the infection would disappear “like a miracle”, and also compared the treatment methods proposed by the president with the Tide Pod Challenge flash mob, when the network users allegedly were going to bite the capsules with the detergent, but at the last moment they changed their minds.
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— Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) April 26, 2020
In addition, Pitt praised Trump’s claim that the coronavirus vaccine vaccine would appear “relatively soon.”
“Relatively soon in relation to what? To the history of the earth? Then yes, the vaccine is really coming soon. But, for example, if you tell a friend that you will come relatively soon and appear in a year and a half, then he will be relatively angry, ”the actor emphasized.
At the same time, CNN reporters jokingly asked Fauci himself, in whose performance he would like to see a parody of himself on Saturday Night Live, and he, laughing, chose Brad Pitt.
According to Johns Hopkins University , by April 28 in the United States the number of cases of coronavirus infection exceeded 985 thousand, of which more than 55 thousand people died.