Saturday Night Live is making an attempt to steal HBO’s thunder.
On an episode hosted by Jon Hamm, the NBC sketch present launched “The White POTUS,” that includes James Austin Johnson’s caricature of President Donald Trump numbing the ache of his personal existential disaster within the wake of the financial crash not with lorazepam, however with a hen nugget.
He isn’t alone, both. We’re additionally launched to Alex Moffat’s Eric Trump and, in a shock cameo, Scarlett Johansson makes an look as Ivanka Trump. Trump Jr. is there, too.
“Are you able to think about how terrible it might if America misplaced all its cash?” Melania asks over breakfast, making one more pointed nod at Trump’s latest tariff insurance policies (of which there have been many in Saturday evening’s episode). “You’d by no means let our economic system go to items, proper hon?”
The episode’s host, Jon Hamm, can also be featured as RFK, Jr., and even musical visitor Lizzo jumped in for this one, enjoying a dissatisfied American after realizing their 401k had tanked. Noticing she has solely $5 million in her checking account, she exclaims: “It was 20 million final week!”
Precise The White Lotus forged member Jon Gries additionally made a cameo as his character, Greg.
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