The first Saturday Night Live cold open sketch of 2019 picked up where 2018 left off, skewering Trump. In this latest version, the show portrayed Trump as a contestant on the NBC game show Deal or No Deal, poking fun of Trump’s stubborn refusal to reach a compromise with Democrats to reopen parts of the federal government that were shut in the week before Christmas.
After an offer from Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of $1 billion plus the demand he say “Nancy’s my Mommy,” Alec Baldwin’s Trump stood firm, saying: “No. It’s not $5 billion and I need $5 billion because…that’s the first random number I said. No deal!”
After dismissing numerous other offers, Trump finally asked to see the case of a nearby Clemson football player, who wasn’t actually participating in the game show. The random player was holding a case of takeout food, and upon opening it, Trump abruptly agreed to end the shutdown in exchange for “hamberders,” a joking reference to a typo from one of Trump’s tweets last week, when boasting about the fast food spread he had laid on for the visiting national football champions.
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