It didn’t make up for Donald Trump’s reception Saturday night live during the start of his 2016 presidential campaign, but it was something.
As Colin Jost explained on this week’s show, “Without a reverse Christmas miracle, this is the last ‘Weekend Update’ with Donald Trump still in office.”
“Now, as president, it was almost bad, but there were some bright spots,” the anchor continued as the applause went off. “So before he calms down and moves like a dinosaur Jurassic Park“I just want to take a moment to acknowledge some of his best moments in office.”
With that, Semisonic’s “Closing Time” began playing and SNL shared a strangely cathartic montage of the most embarrassing photos and videos of the 45th president captured over the past four years, from throwing paper towels at hurricane victims to mocking a disabled journalist and everything in it. was in the middle.
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it’s over,” Jost said when he finished. “It simply came to our notice then. I don’t know, I’m still working on it with my therapist. “
From there, Jost and his anchor Michael Che moved on to the coronavirus pandemic, which is sinking more than ever in the final weeks of Trump’s tenure.
“Mike Pence received the coronavirus vaccine on Friday, which is the first time he’s always been okay with using protection,” Che said. And then, “Mike Pence said when he got the shot, ‘I didn’t hear anything,’ which is also what was said over and over again after seeing Harry Styles in that suit.”
Jost then noted that Trump’s White House “has left it in the hands of states” to distribute the vaccine. “Which shocks me because, knowing Trump, I thought for sure it would be done through a live Powerball lottery. The qualifications would have been crazy and would have been the first job for which Ivanka qualified in the White House.
Then, with the surest sign of it all SNL is ready to move on from Trump, Jost made a really brutal joke about his successor.
“He Wall Street Journal she published a post suggesting that Dr. Jill Biden stop using the term doctor because she has a doctorate and is not a doctor, “she said.” Although she has sometimes worked as a nurse. “
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