Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is coming to fellow presidential candidate Donald Trump’s defense amid a backlash over NBC’s decision to let the businessman host “Saturday Night Live."

The Florida senator said he does not always agree with the GOP front-runner, but calls for him to be removed as host are excessive.

“It’s a free country,” Rubio said on Fox News’ “Your World” with Neil Cavuto on Wednesday. “I don’t agree with everything that Donald Trump says, I don’t agree with everything the other side says, either. But if you don’t like it, don’t watch the show.”

“It’s on at 11:35 on Saturday nights and there are plenty of other things you can watch, or you can just go to bed early,” he added.

Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) has said Trump’s inflammatory comments about illegal immigrants should have disqualified him from hosting the comedy show.

“To put Donald Trump on the air in American living rooms on the signature comedy show of the most important national networks after saying that Mexicans are rapists, drug dealers, and criminals, that is a corporate blunder too big to be ignored,” he said on the House floor on Wednesday.

“If Donald Trump had said gays and lesbians were murderers and raping Americans, would he get to host the show? It is every bit as much a fiction and a lie,” he added.

Trump is scheduled to host “SNL” on Nov. 7.