It didn’t make much sense to have Donald Trump as host Live on Saturday night at the beginning of his 2016 presidential campaign, but it was something.
As Colin Jost explained in this week’s show, “Except for a reverse Christmas miracle, this is the last ‘Update Weekend,’ with Donald Trump still in office.”
“Now, as president, it was mostly bad, but there were a few bright spots,” the anchor continued as the cheers died down. So before he calmed down and moved like a dinosaur inside Jurassic ParkI just want to take a moment to acknowledge some of his greatest moments in office. “
With that, Semisonic’s “Closing Time” began to play as well SNL shared a strange cathartic montage with the most embarrassing photos and videos of the 45th president caught in the last four years, from throwing paper towels at hurricane victims to mocking a reporter with disabilities and everything between them.
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened,” Jost said when it was over. “And then you probably cry a little. I don’t know, I’m still working with my therapist. “
From there, Jost and co-anchor Michael Che went through the coronavirus pandemic, which is raging harder than ever in the last weeks of Trump’s term.
“Mike Pence received the coronavirus vaccine on Friday, which is the first time he’s ever been okay with using protection,” Che said. And then, “Mike Pence said when he got the vaccine, ‘I didn’t feel anything,’ which he said to himself after seeing Harry Styles in that dress.”
Jost then pointed out that Trump’s White House “left it to the states” to distribute the vaccine. “Which shocks me because, knowing Trump, I certainly thought it would be done through a live Powerball lottery. The evaluations would have been crazy and it would have been the first job for the White House for which Ivanka was qualified. “
Then in the safest sign yet SNL is about to pass Trump, Jost made a really brutal joke about his successor.
“The Wall Street Journal published an article suggesting that Dr. Jill Biden stops using the term doctor because he has a doctorate and is not a doctor, ”he said. “Although she sometimes worked as a nurse.”
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