Civil rights groups protest Donald Trump’s Saturday Night Live episode

Donald Trump smiles in New York. (Richard Drew/Getty)

“November 7, 2015, will go down in history as the day NBC and Lorne Michaels disrespected Latinos and became the biggest losers,” says a YouTube video encouraging Americans to protest Donald Trump’s appearance on Saturday Night Live.

The National Hispanic Media Coalition and more than a dozen civil rights groups will lead a protest and deliver a petition of nearly 500,000 signatures demanding NBCUniversal to dump Trump as the show's guest host. The demonstrations will begin at 4pm on Wednesday outside the Comcast Building at 30 Rockefeller Center in New York City.

“Saturday Night Live is not a news program, it is a cultural touchstone. Providing such a platform for somebody who so clearly holds false and disparaging opinions of so many segments of this country is a dangerous proposition that legitimizes Trump’s hateful views and rewards his hate speech," Alex Nogales, President and CEO of the National Hispanic Media Coalition, said in a press release.

Felix Sanchez, co-founder of the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts, told the Wrap that NBC's lack of response is a "slap in the face.”

A spokesperson for NBCUniversal told The Independent that "SNL is not commenting" on the protest.