Tom Hanks returned to Saturday Night Live as David S. Pumpkins for the Halloween episode, but fans weren’t exactly feeling the spooky spirit after President Donald Trump interrupted the sketch.
Hanks returned as the orange-suited character during a Halloween tomb tour, delivering his signature strange energy before James Austin Johnson‘s Trump barged in with a message about the upcoming midterm elections. The president even drew a comparison between himself and Pumpkins, noting that they both appeared in 2016 and were “loud, very orange and very annoying.”
But the unexpected crossover didn’t land with everyone watching at home. On Threads, viewers complained that the political interruption overshadowed Hanks’ return, with some saying they were tired of seeing Trump dominate the show’s cold opens.
“My excitement at seeing Hanks went from 10 to 0 immediately,” one viewer wrote. Another agreed that the sketch deserved a different approach, commenting, “I wish they would have let them finish. The Trump interruption cold opens are exhausting. Do something else.”
Others accused SNL of turning what could have been a nostalgic comedy moment into political messaging. “It felt like a political advertisement,” one commenter wrote, while another asked, “Is it too much to ask for SNL to have one cold open not about Trump?”
One fan summed up the disappointment with a simple assessment: “Hanks deserved better.”
The cold open also featured Veronika Slowikowska as Katie Zacharia, Trump’s recently fired White House press secretary. Just two weeks after her firing, Zacharia was given a chance to redeem herself by delivering SNL‘s famous opening line. Instead, she stumbled through it, saying, “Live from New York, and from so many cities!” Hanks ultimately delivered the familiar introduction.
Not everyone disliked the sketch, however. Some viewers welcomed David S. Pumpkins’ return, while others appreciated the absurdity of the character’s comeback.
Still, the mixed response highlights a recurring complaint among some SNL viewers: They want the show to surprise them with its comedy without every big moment becoming another Trump sketch.
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