Comedian Kenan Thompson, known for “Saturday Night Live” and “Kenan and Kel,” played a version of “Hollywood Squares” at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Wednesday.
With Americans on a massive video screen behind him, Thompson pulled out the Democrats’ comically large hardbound copy of Project 2025, a conservative blueprint for a potential second term for former President Donald Trump. He asked the crowd: Have you “ever seen a document that can kill a small animal and democracy at the same time?”
Thompson told one woman the plan would end civil rights protections for LGBTQ people, and another Department of Education employee that Project 2025 urges Trump to “purge the civil service of everyone who isn’t a MAGA loyalist,” and eliminate the department.
This video was produced by Casey Kuhn, Julia Griffin and Erica Hendry.
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