Saturday Night Live didn’t waste any time on Saturday spoofing Donald Trump and Joe Biden’s historic Oval Office meeting at the White House earlier this week.
“Hello everybody. Thank you to the press for joining us to document this very important presidential transition meeting. I’m being serious right now. Even though we disagree, I’m eager to sit down for a respectful conversation,” Dana Carvey’s Biden says.
“Yeah, get a load of me. Instead of being rude and crazy like usual, I’m doing quiet and serene, which in many ways is a lot scarier,” James Austin Johnson’s Trump adds before Biden continues, “I’m gonna sit here and smile while ignoring the giant fire right behind me.”
Trump later complains about how he “forgot how boring [being] president is.”
“I love running, hate being,” he continues. “And I hate the White House, so old, so dated. So many of the carpets are stinky and sticky at the same time. Sort of like being at a Regal Cinemas. Now I have to live here for the next four years, possibly longer.”
“But I can’t go back to Mar-a-Lago, Joe, because Elon [Musk] is there and he will not leave,” Johnson’s Trump adds. “It’s like, What About Bob? He’s walking around in his bathing suit, showing me videos of rockets and monkeys with computers in their heads. This guy’s cringe.”
After Carvey’s Biden attempted to give the president-elect some advice about being president, Trump says, “I already know how to do president.”
“It’s all about surrounding yourself with the best people and I am very fastly picking the most epic cabinet of all time,” he explains. “They’re some of the most dynamic, freethinking, animal killing, sexually criminal, medically crazy people in the country.”
Trump then proceeds to share some of his cabinet picks so far, including Elon Musk (who will run the newly-created Department of Government Efficiency with Vivek Ramaswamy) and Rep. Matt Gaetz (who was tapped as attorney general). “That’s an alien versus predator,” he says. “Gov. Kristi Noem (who was picked for the role of secretary of the Department of Homeland Security) and RFJ. Jr., they’re killing the dogs, they’re killing the bears, and Melania will be working remotely from divorce.”
Biden responds, “I see what you’re doing with these nominations. You’re picking a bunch of wacko, jackos to test out how compliant the Senate will be with your policies.”
Later during the cold open, the president-elect also brought out some of his controversial cabinet picks, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., played by Alec Baldwin, and Gaetz, played by Sarah Sherman.
“I don’t want to bother you. I just wanted to thank you for nominating me for attorney general. I’m gonna do a great job,” Gaetz says. “If anyone tries to break the law, I’ll tell him what I told my eyebrows: freeze.”
A confused Biden says in response, “Are you serious with this guy? He’s giving me the ick.” Trump adds, “Me too, but I think he’s gonna be terrific.”
Baldwin’s Kennedy walks in after, telling the president-elect, “I’m so honored to be the head of the Health and Human Services Department. Americans need someone to teach them how to be healthy. Someone like me, a 70-year-old man with movie star looks and a worm in his brain. … I care deeply about a woman’s right to choose, to choose to give her child Polio. I just wish people would take my appointment more seriously.”
Charli XCX is making her hosting debut on NBC’s sketch comedy show on Saturday, and will also be the musical guest.
More to come.
