The Saturday Night Live chilly open noticed James Austin Johnson returning as Donald Trump, two days earlier than the inauguration, this time speaking in regards to the TikTok ban.
About an hour earlier than the present aired, TikTok actually did go darkish as a brand new U.S. regulation was about to enter impact proscribing the social media platform from U.S. app shops. The regulation gave Chinese language mother or father ByteDance a time-frame to promote TikTok or face a ban. A sale by no means occurred, and TikTok stated the ban went into impact at midnight.
The premise of the SNL open was MSNBC’s protection of inauguration weekend, with Rachel Maddow (Sarah Sherman) and different anchors struggling to deal with the substance of Trump’s insurance policies however perpetually distracted by his many wild proposals and Reality Social posts.
Then, with the TikTok information, the anchors had been unable to withstand going to protection of Trump’s assertion.
“Sure, we love TikTok, don’t we?” Johnson, as Trump, stated. “We love TikTok. We used to hate it, however then it, fairly frankly, in some ways, received me elected.” Then, Trump went into the “weave,” or the tendency of his pontificating to enter stream of consciousness.
“We additionally love the Rizzler, don’t we of us? They’re attempting to take the Rizzler away from us. It’s so unhappy. They need him the hell out of right here.” He went on to speak about different social media sensations, together with the ice bucket problem.
“We might must go over to Reels with Mark Zuckerberg. I like him now. Zuck, he seems to be significantly better, a lot cooler when it comes to perm and with regard to ache. He’ll after all be at my inauguration which might be indoors — too many individuals to suit exterior.”
He continued, “We’re very excited to be inaugurated on Martin Luther King Day. I like sharing the day.”
Then, he launched his “newest cupboard choose” — George Santos (Bowen Yang).
“I’m so honored to be becoming a member of Trump’s cupboard as Secretary of Truth Checking and Ambassador to Sephora,” Santos stated. “I’m a part of the politician to Cameo again to politician and ultimately to jail pipeline.
The protection went again to the MSNBC anchors, having been unable to withstand Trump’s relentless tweets and pronouncements, which included the announcement that “America has declared conflict on sharks: and that Trump wish to commerce Connecticut. Along with Maddow, the skit additionally spoofed Stephanie Ruhle, Ari Melber, Pleasure Reid and Chris Hayes.
Extra to come back.
