'Simply pathetic': Trump attacks Harris for 'cosplaying with elites' on SNL as US vice president faces backlash over 'fake accent'

Donald Trump criticized his Democratic rival Kamala Harris after she made a surprise appearance on Saturday Night Live just three days before the US presidential election.

Her appearance on SNL came after popular podcaster Joe Rogan shared that Harris had made few demands during the campaign to appear in an interview and suggested that the US vice president had refused to appear on his podcast due to scheduling conflicts.

On Saturday, Harris' plane made a sudden stop in New York City to make an unexpected appearance on the NBC sitcom show.

In a statement to Daily Mail, Trump's communications director Steven Cheung accused the Democratic candidate of “cosplaying” with her “elite friends.”

He further claimed that she had “nothing meaningful to offer” Americans in her presidential campaign.

“Kamala Harris has nothing of substance to offer the American people, so she lives out her twisted fantasy and plays with her elite friends on Saturday Night Leftists while her campaign fades into obscurity,” Cheung said.

He continued his tirade against Harris, saying her “destructive policies” over the past four years have caused unimaginable suffering and harm to all Americans. “She broke it, and President Trump is going to fix it.”

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Kamala Harris targeted for 'fake accent'

Meanwhile, Harris received major backlash for using her “fake accent.”

“Kamala Harris spent three hours rehearsing for this cringe-fest on SNL. Complete with the fake black accent. This is a tough watch. “My God,” one X user wrote.

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“Just hearing Kamala's fake hood accent dropped my credit score by 50 points,” wrote another, explaining, “Those fake accents would be bad enough if she had even a half-decent command of them, but this is just pathetic, you know.” “That it's bad if I'm ashamed of her.”

Harris, who is of Indian and Jamaican descent, has been mocked for using a “blaccent” as she changes her language and tone depending on the race, class and other characteristics of her audience.

She was mocked online last week for preaching to a predominantly black crowd in a “fake accent.”