SNL Cold Open: Baldwin Is Back, Ripping Eminem, Corker And Tillerson

SNL Cold Open: Baldwin Is Back, Ripping Eminem, Corker And Tillerson

Alec Baldwin returns as Donald Trump, appearing at a rally in “Harass-burg” to pour bile on Senator Bob Corker (“a midget”), Rex Tillerson (“a dummy”) and rapper Eminem, who “rapped some very nasty things about me, and very soon I’m going to release a response rap on the White Entertainment Network, HGT.”

 He threatens to “rip out all the vegetables” in Michelle Obama’s garden to plant “McNuggets,” while carrying on an intermittent phone conversation with Beck Bennett as a hapless Mike Pence, who flees an NFL game and a same-sex wedding at his chief’s command.

 As the president would be the first to tell you, SNL isn’t funny at all. Never! Unless he’s on the show…

 

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