Saturday Night Live once more poked fun at unusual President-elect, Donald Trump, making jest of what the media see as ‘Trump’s obsession with Twitter’.
The show has always parodied topical issues and persons of note, and now Donald Trump has become an inexhaustible ingredient for the jokes.
In between troubling Cabinet picks, rampant conflicts of interest, and unprecedented casual phone calls to foreign leaders, Saturday Night Live is getting a lot of materials.
Trump is not keeping quiet; he takes to Twitter to respond to every insult and joke thrown his way. Recently, he has exchanged Twitter punches with numerous people and entities, including Alec Baldwin, CNN, New York Times, Anderson Cooper, and now again, Saturday Night Live.
When Trump’s former campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway (played by Kate McKinnon) suggested he was tweeting to distract the media from other, bigger issues, he shrugged off that justification with a simpler answer: “My brain is bad.”
And every time McKinnon’s Conway and a pair of security experts would try to keep Trump on task in listening to the briefing, SNL would almost immediately cut away to cast members playing whichever Twitter user Trump was retweeting instead — people whose bios featured such declarations as “liberalism is a cancer.”
As his staff grew visibly more anxious — while eyeing the iPhone clasped in his hand with increasing horror — Baldwin’s Trump remained unruffled.
“Next, I’m going to do what I promised my whole campaign,” he said. “I’m going to build … that … swamp.”
“Don’t you mean ‘drain the swamp’ and ‘build that wall’?” McKinnon’s Conway asked, hoping to guide him back to the point.
“No, that’s too many things,” he replied. “Just smush ‘em together.”
The sketch’s security briefing then veered off into a state of panic over only having seven weeks left until Trump’s inauguration, continuing until the President-elect eventually welcomed chief strategist, Steve Bannon into the room, played by a man wearing a Halloween Grim Reaper costume.
Okay, so in trying to catalog all of Trump’s recent antics, the sketch got pretty scattered. Maybe the SNL writers’ room was tired this week — but if the past 25 days have been any indication, the show should probably get used to having to pare down an embarrassment of Trump embarrassments to a number more manageable for a comedy sketch from here on out.
Donald Trump would not take that. He clapped back at Twitter few hours later,
“Just tried watching Saturday Night Live – unwatchable! Totally biased, not funny and the Baldwin impersonation just can’t get any worse. Sad”
