President-elect Donald Trump (performed by James Austin Johnson) discovered a method to distract MSNBC from masking “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 Pleasure Reid (performed by Ego Nwodim), who declared that “this time around” the community wouldn’t be “sucked in by every new shiny, crazy statement” from Trump.
However the community deserted Reid’s recreation plan inside seconds as a “breaking news” alert appeared on the display screen.
“Trump has apparently just told reporters that he would like to, ‘trade Connecticut for Italy,’” stated MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow (performed by Sarah Sherman). “I mean, that’s just crazy.”
“Rachel, Rachel, see this is what I mean. We can’t have a repeat of 2016,” urged Nwodim’s Reid.
The distractions, nevertheless, continued as Sherman’s Maddow learn an alert about Trump telling wildfire victims that “Arnold Palmer had some of the longest balls in American history.”
She then learn a “tweet” from the president-elect, who wrote that he “would end fire by filling the UP house with water balloons!!!”
“This man was designed by the devil to break my spirit,” stated Nwodim’s Reid. “You can just call me Ann Reid because the Joy 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 may have to go over to Reels with Mark Zuckerberg. I like him now. Zuck, he looks better, much cooler in terms of perm and in regard to chain,” stated Johnson’s Trump.
“And he will of course be at my inauguration which will be indoors, too many people to fit outside.”
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