NBC slammed after Trump campaign cobbles 'last minute' ad after Harris SNL slot

A short video message from the Trump campaign which aired on NBC has been slammed online as not "comparable" to Kamala Harris' Saturday Night Live appearance. NBC News aired a short video message from Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to provide both candidates with equal airtime after Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris appeared on Saturday Night Live. Republicans had aired concerns that NBC may have violated longstanding rules around equal time after the Kamala Harris SNL cameo. To contain controversy over her appearance, NBC aired a Trump message at the end of a prime-time NASCAR race. CBR Chair of Politics, Censorship, and Free Speech at the University of Austin Michael Shellenberger argued NBC’s Trump airtime wasn’t “comparable” to Harris’s, as it was a last-minute, cobbled-together segment. "The SNL skit was funny and humanizing and created by the best minds in television. The Trump campaign had to cobble something together at the last minute,” Shellenberger said in the post on X. “And, as of now, over 9 million people have watched the clip on YouTube. There’s no way that 9 million people will see the Trump message that NBC put on after NASCAR.”