New York, Nov 8 (EFE).– Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump used an appearance on “Saturday Night Live” to poke fun at himself.

The 69-year-old real estate mogul, who has been near the top of the polls in the GOP field vying for a shot to be the party’s standard bearer in the 2016 presidential election, hosted SNL, a popular 90-minute comedy show on NBC.

Trump, who wore business suits and power ties in most of his sketches, even appeared in one sketch with two impersonators, who he said “don’t have my talent, my money, or especially my good looks.”

“A lot of greats have hosted this show, including me in 2004,” Trump said in his opening monologue.

The businessman’s appearance was protested by Latino groups opposed to his hardline position on illegal immigration.

One group had offered a $5,000 bounty to anyone who heckled the businessman during the show by shouting “Trump is a racist.”

The billionaire businessman was interrupted early in the broadcast by a man shouting “Trump is a racist!”

The heckler, however, turned out to be actor Larry David, who played Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in another sketch.

“I heard if I yelled that they’d give me $5,000,” David said.

A bemused Trump shrugged off the incident, saying “as a businessman I can respect that.”

One sketch had Trump in the White House, reviewing his fictional accomplishments during his first two years as president with his staff and accepting a check from an actor playing Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto to pay for construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border, one of the policies proposed by the billionaire on the campaign trail.

Trump said that “as history shows us, nothing brings two countries together like a wall.”

SNL has launched the careers of numerous actors, including Chevy Chase, Tina Fey, Eddie Murphy, Bill Murray and the late John Belushi. EFE