For the final SNL of the yr, President Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson) received right into a festive temper — by speaking about Jeffrey Epstein for the umpteenth time.
The chilly open wasn’t the primary time SNL talked about Epstein, even in chilly opens. But it surely was the primary episode because the latest launch of new information pertaining to Epstein on Friday, adopted by the short removing of a few of them on Saturday.
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Referencing Trump’s Wednesday evening primetime tackle to the nation, Johnson’s Trump confirmed as much as the rostrum surrounded by Christmas decorations by an ornate fire. He mentioned the latest renaming of the Kennedy Heart to incorporate his personal title, and ribbed that it will additionally occur to the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial. He stated he is placing his title on so many buildings “as a result of we needed to take it off of so many information,” referencing the closely redacted Epstein information.
“We had so many Trumps in there, we needed to put them someplace,” SNL’s Trump stated.
The rambling chilly open additionally mentions Trump’s announcement of the Starvation Video games-like Patriot Video games, Venezuela, and in some way, the Indigo Ladies. However there was time to have a good time the season, too. “I am doing my very own model of Nativity now,” Johnson’s Trump stated. “The place kings from the Center East carry presents for me like gold and airplane and on line casino deal in Dubai.”
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