Hunger Games star Elizabeth Banks opened night two of the Democratic National Convention by lampooning The Donald’s smoke-filled, rocked-out, pro-wrestling inspired RNC introduction.
In the video (below), Banks recreates the full-effect including the backlit silhouetting and blaring Queen’s “We Are The Champions.”
“You know I don’t usually say this about Donald Trump, but that was over the top,” Banks tells the crowd. “I confirmed it, just now. The Trump campaign is so hard-up for money that I just bought their fog machine on Ebay for 30 bucks.”
In her speech, the actress goes on to compare The Donald to her character from the popular tween movie series that made her famous.
“Some of you know me from the Hunger Games in which I play Effie Trinket, a cruel, out of touch reality TV star who wears insane wigs while delivering long winded speeches to a violent dystopia. So when I tuned into Cleveland last week I was like, ‘Hey, that’s my act.'”
Banks told the crowd of her first date with her husband: a 1992 Bill Clinton rally where she first gazed upon “Shrillary.”
“It was there that I learned something really important about show business,” Banks recalled. “The headliner should always watch out for someone stealing the show. Hillary Clinton rocked my world. A smart, committed, successful woman, and not for her own benefit, but a fighter for women and children, cops and first responders, health care and girls around the world.”
“The Trump campaign is so hard-up for money that I just bought their fog machine on Ebay for 30 bucks.”
Elizabeth Banks
Banks ended by proudly telling the arena, “Did you know that when Hillary Clinton graduated law school, she didn’t just sell-out and go work for some fancy law firm. She went to work advocating for children and families. It was one of her first fights and since then she has never let up.”
If only somebody in the control room at the end of her speech would’ve put up on the Jumbotron the clip of Hillary back in her young lawyer days laughing about the time she got her child rapist client off on a technicality: