‘Saturday Night Live’ Opens With Donald Trump Ignoring Rising Prices And An Election Rebuke, As Well As The Guy Who Collapsed In The Oval Office
James Austin Johnson’s Donald Trump returned to the Saturday Night Live cold open, this time in a spoof of the moment this week when a man collapsed in the Oval Office during a press conference on lowering the cost of weight-loss drugs.
In the skit, Trump ignores the man, a riff on a photo that went viral in which the president stood stone face and seemed to ignore the hub of activity next to him, as Dr. Mehmet Oz and others tried to assist him.
But the opener also touched on this week’s off-year elections, as Democrats trounced GOP candidates in what was seen as a rebuke of Trump, what with prices continuing to rise.
“I promised grocery prices would plummet, and they did. They plummeted straight up,” Johnson’s Trump said. “And people are now saying, ‘but sir, how will I afford my Thanksgiving turkey for my family? Well, the good news is your family is not coming because all the planes are gone. We call that problem solving problem. Killing two bird with another bird. Now you got a bunch of crazy birds.”
More to come.