Presidents each previous and current have at all times been dependable comedic fodder for Saturday Night Live, and this week’s information of Donald Trump’s indictment was no exception.
James Austin Johnson as soon as once more performed our forty fifth president, as Trump, within the wake of being “indicated,” appears to be like to scrape up a bit of additional money by producing the album Now That’s What I Call My Legal Defense Fund, aka Trump Popz.
“Now you may have seen I’ve been opening my rallies with my wonderful song, ‘Justice for All,’ which I performed with the J6 choir — that’s a very real thing,” Trump assured constituents and music followers all over the place. “It was the number one downloaded song. We beat ‘Flowers’ by Miley… Our song raked in so much cash, I thought, why stop there?”
We had been then handled to snippets of “all the hits,” as Trump, together with assist from Don King (Kenan Thompson) and his son Don Jr. (Mikey Day), tried to sing (if we will name it that) tracks like The Black Crowes’ “Hard to Handle,” Alanis Morrissette’s “Ironic” and the Kenny Rogers/Dolly Parton basic, “Islands in the Stream.”
“What a deal, just 30 classic covers, all horrible,” mentioned Trump, including that the cash generated will assist “your favorite president to defend our movement and mostly myself from the evil Manhattan Dah.” (“Dah” being Trump-speak for “district attorney.”)
After his son bids him goodbye (“It might be the last time I see you!”), Trump signed off by promising Manhattan he’ll see them on Tuesday. “Will be wild!” he exclaimed.
The skit was in fact spoofing the true Trump’s Thursday indictment when it was introduced that the previous U.S. president was going through fees stemming from hush cash funds made to ladies with whom he allegedly had sexual encounters.
Watch the clip embedded above, then grade this weekend’s SNL beneath.
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