The most zealous supporters of President Donald Trump practically broke the internet with maniacal rants protesting actor Tom Hanks’ comic portrayal of a guy named “Doug” wearing a Make America Great Again (MAGA) hat during the 50th anniversary show of “Saturday Night Live.”

Strangely (or maybe not), these same people did not go nuts or flood the internet with protests when Trump and co-President Elon Musk fired several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, many with training in FAA radar, landing and navigational aid maintenance, at a time when airplane safety is a growing concern.

But watching Hanks speak with a Southern accent in a skit about “Black Jeopardy!” really, really irked them.

Unlike when Trump and Musk laid off vital employees of the Veterans Health Administration, which U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., called “attempting to balance the budget on the backs of veterans.”

That didn’t trouble them in the least.

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Not like Hanks cutting it up with “SNL” cast member Kenan Thompson, which made them absolutely furious.

Then again, these same MAGA faithful expressed no outrage whatsoever when Musk tried to give his bro gang of hackers access to Americans’ most private financial information, including Social Security benefits, VA benefits and much more.

But they went positively ballistic over Hanks reprising a role in a sketch first performed nine years ago.

Not a peep from them, on the other hand, when hundreds of employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health were let go.

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Hanks backing away from a Black man’s handshake during a comedy TV sketch, though, had them foaming at the mouth.

Yet when Trump gave enormous power to Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, an unofficial government agency with no congressional approval, they didn’t blink.

But Hanks wearing a denim jacket over an American eagle T-shirt. Terrible! Outrageous!

It didn’t bother them at all, however, when Musk – a self-proclaimed champion of free speech – said, “’60 Minutes’ are the biggest liars in the world! They deserve a long prison sentence.”

Maybe MAGA is worse than that ‘SNL’ character

Musk was upset about a segment the program did on killing the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which provides disaster relief to impoverished countries, particularly those working on democratic reforms.

During the program, it was said about Musk: “The world’s richest man cut off aid for the world’s poorest people.”

The fact that MAGA is angrier and more upset at Hanks than they are with the world’s richest man cutting off aid to the world’s poorest people might prove that Trump supporters outraged by Hanks’ MAGA portrayal could have a point.

It could be they’re not exactly versions of the Hanks character.

It could be they’re worse.

EJ Montini is a columnist at the Arizona Republic, where this column originally appeared. Reach Montini at [email protected]