For the last SNL This year, President Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson) is in a celebratory mood – talking about Jeffrey Epstein for the umpteenth time.
The cold open wasn’t the first time SNL He mentioned Epstein, even in the cold open. But it was the first episode since the last release of New files related to Epstein on Friday, followed by a quick removal of some on Saturday.
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In a nod to Trump’s Wednesday night prime-time address to the nation, Trump-Johnson appeared on stage surrounded by Christmas decorations next to a decorated fireplace. The latter is discussed Renaming the Kennedy Center to include his name, and implied that it would also happen to the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. He said he put his name on many of the buildings “because we had to remove it from so many files,” referring to Epstein’s heavily redacted files.
“We had a lot of Trump out there, and we had to put them somewhere.” ‘SNL’Trump said.
The rambling cold open also references Trump’s Hunger Games-like announcement Patriot GamesVenezuela and, somehow, the Indigo Girls. But there was time to celebrate the season, too. “I’m doing my own version of the cradle now,” Trump-Johnson said. “Where Middle Eastern kings give me gifts like a gold deal, a plane and a casino in Dubai.”