‘SNL’ skewers West
Alec Baldwin reprises his SNL role as Trump to help re-create the meeting between the president and rapper Kanye West.
In his first “SNL” appearance of the season, Alec Baldwin returned to his recurring role as President Donald Trump to help re-create the strange Oval Office meeting that transpired Thursday between the president and rapper Kanye West.
Baldwin opened the meeting by announcing, “Thank you all for joining us today for this important discussion. It’s in no way a publicity stunt. This is a serious private conversation between three friends, plus 50 reporters with cameras.”
Chris Redd played West, who declared, “I flew here using the power of this hat.”
Also on hand was Kenan Thompson, who played an embarrassed-looking Jim Brown. “I’ve been on coalitions with Bill Cosby and O.J. Simpson and this is the first time I have regrets,” he said at one point.
West (who earlier Saturday returned to Twitter to give a lengthy monologue about mind control) has become something of a comic foil to “SNL.” After performing on the show’s season premiere two weeks ago, West delivered a discursive off-air monologue in support of Trump, to the chagrin of several “SNL” cast members.
Redd was pontificating, Kanye-style: “The murder rate is going down, 20 percent every years. And pretty soon it’s going to be a negative murder rate. We’re going to be digging bodies out of the ground.”
At the same time, Baldwin could be heard thinking Trump-like thoughts to himself: “This guy might be cuckoo. I’ve been in a room with Dennis Rodman and Kim Jong Un and they made a lot more sense than him.”