President-elect Donald Trump (performed by James Austin Johnson) discovered a approach to distract MSNBC from protecting “tech billionaires buying our democracy” and the TikTok ban within the “Saturday Night Live” chilly open this weekend.
The mock MSNBC inauguration week panel featured Joy Reid (performed by Ego Nwodim), who declared that “this time round” the community wouldn’t be “sucked in by each new shiny, loopy assertion” from Trump.
However the community deserted Reid’s recreation plan inside seconds as a “breaking information” alert appeared on the display screen.
“Trump has apparently simply informed reporters that he wish to, ‘commerce Connecticut for Italy,’” stated MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow (performed by Sarah Sherman). “I imply, that’s simply loopy.”
“Rachel, Rachel, see that is what I imply. We are able to’t have a repeat of 2016,” urged Nwodim’s Reid.
The distractions, nonetheless, continued as Sherman’s Maddow learn an alert about Trump telling wildfire victims that “Arnold Palmer had a number of the longest balls in American historical past.”
She then learn a “tweet” from the president-elect, who wrote that he “would finish hearth by filling the UP home with water balloons!!!”
“This man was designed by the satan to interrupt my spirit,” stated Nwodim’s Reid. “You may simply name me Ann Reid as a result of the Pleasure is gone.”
Sherman’s Maddow then turned to a press convention of Trump remarking on the TikTok ban that went into impact this weekend.
“We could must go over to Reels with Mark Zuckerberg. I like him now. Zuck, he appears higher, a lot cooler by way of perm and in regard to chain,” stated Johnson’s Trump.
“And he’ll after all be at my inauguration which will likely be indoors, too many individuals to suit outdoors.”
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