A Hispanic advocacy group has offered $5,000 to anyone who heckles Donald Trump while he's hosting "Saturday Night Live" this weekend, which will likely have NBC beefing up security to avoid any such outburst during the broadcast, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Trump was approved for Secret Service protection this week. If they take the same precautions as Hillary Clinton's detail did for her guest spot on "SNL" earlier this fall, it could add one extra security checkpoint for audience members.
Normally, audience members go through one metal detector and check in with an NBC employee before heading up to Studio 8H in the elevators. Before the episode with Clinton (hosted by Miley Cyrus), audience members were met by Secret Service agents on the eighth floor and patted down, scanned with metal detectors wands and had their handbags thoroughly checked, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Stopping someone from shouting during the live telecast will be difficult to prevent since all a person has to do is yell out while the cameras are rolling. DeportRacism.com, the group offering the heckling reward, guarantees the money only to the person who can clearly be heard saying "Depart racism" or "Trump is a racist" and identified by name in news reports as a supporter of DeportRacism.com.
"We're really hopeful," Luke Montgomery, activist and founder of Deport Racism 2016, told THR about those offering to heckle Trump. "I can't really tell you much more than that. We don't want to compromise any plans that are being made."
Other Hispanic groups have protested and petitioned "SNL" to drop Trump, but the Republican presidential candidate is still scheduled to host on Nov. 7 at 11:30 p.m. on NBC.
