This week’s “Saturday Night Live” Weekend Update segment went all-in on the shoddy ethics involving Donald Trump’s transition. It specifically targeted Trump’s continued involvement as an executive producer on “Celebrity Apprentice,” which he hosted in the past.
“It was revealed Donald Trump will keep his job as producer on ‘The Celebrity Apprentice” while is he President. It’s an absurd, unethical, and potentially illegal conflict of interest — only on NBC,” Weekend Update co-host Colin Jost said as an image of the NBC logo appeared on screen and the audience applauded eagerly. NBC, of course, is the home of “SNL” as well as “Celebrity Apprentice.” You can see this bit and the rest of that Weekend Update segment at the top of this post.
“Now, people are upset that Trump is doing a TV show and won’t go to intelligence briefings, but, face it, America. Trump won because he is the fun guy,” said Jost. “If we wanted a diligent, competent, experienced president we would have elected nerd lady. If your school elects the rich cool guy president he isn’t going to attend school council meetings. He is going to go on a victory lap, start a food fight with the model U.N. and grab some cheerleaders by the pom-poms. his whole platform was seniors rule, Mexicans drool.”
Earlier in the segment, Michael Che took shots at Trump’s irresponsibility and Mike Pence’s attendance during security meetings in the face of Trump’s absence. “This could also explain why Donald Trump has only been to a couple of the daily intelligence briefings since winning the election,” said Che. “Mike Pence has been to six a week. Pence is like a wife carefully reading the Ikea instructions and Trump is the stubborn dad yelling, “It’s supposed to be wobbly!”
This week’s show didn’t pull punches, addressing Trump’s horrible twitter etiquette and his lack of actual worldly knowledge. This has become the new normal for Weekend Update, which has been targeting Trump almost exclusively since the election — abandoning the “take shots at both sides” tact it had been taking earlier in the season.
Here's Every Time Alec Baldwin Was Donald Trump on SNL This Season (Videos)
"SNL" held off on starting its 42nd season until the first presidential debate aired, and it turned out to be the right move. Baldwin replaced Darrell Hammond as the man to play Trump, and his act quickly went viral.
A week later, Baldwin did the first of several encore performances, starting with a sketch in which he responded to the tapes of Trump's infamous comments to Billy Bush.
Baldwin then got a chance to be a bit more physical when he and McKinnon parodied the Town Hall debate, which featured a cameo from Bobby Moynihan as Ken Bone.
In that same episode, Baldwin also had an appearance in a digital short parodying Beyonce's "Lemonade," in which Trump's ladies strike back after all his antics.
Then Baldwin and McKinnon did one more debate parody, which featured Tom Hanks as Fox News anchor/debate moderator Chris Wallace.
In the final "SNL" episode before Nov. 8, Baldwin finally broke character and ran out with McKinnon to detox from the ugliness of the campaign with the help of some fellow Americans in Times Square.
But while Baldwin's run has been widely hailed, there's one guy who didn't like it: his own brother and avid Trump supporter, Stephen Baldwin. Here's what he had to say about Alec's bit after the final debate in Las Vegas.
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Alec Baldwin’s weekly Trump parodies on “SNL” this season have been so good it almost made this tire fire election seem worth it
"SNL" held off on starting its 42nd season until the first presidential debate aired, and it turned out to be the right move. Baldwin replaced Darrell Hammond as the man to play Trump, and his act quickly went viral.
