Pete Davidson plays a terrorist who thanks Alec Baldwin’s Trump ‘for bringing back jobs to ISIS’ in SNL cold open that also pokes fun at Lindsay Graham and Mark Zuckerberg
- SNL mocked Trump’s decision to abruptly withdraw Troops from Syria in its cold open
- Alec Baldwin played the Commander-in-chief, while cast member Pete Davidson appeared as a freed ISIS prisoner
- Davidson’s character thanked the President for ‘making ISIS great again’
- The cold open also mocked Trump’s loyal political ally Lindsey Graham, who was described as looking like ”a scoop of ice cream melting into a suit’
- SNL also took aim at POTUS base of ‘deplorables’, depicting them as bumbling, racist conspiracy theorists
SNL has poked fun at Trump’s decision to withdraw troops from Syria by having cast member Pete Davidson play a recently-freed member of ISIS who thanks the President for ‘bringing back jobs for terrorists’.
Alec Baldwin returned to the program to play the Commander-in-chief in the sketch, which took place at a fictional Trump rally in New Mexico.
‘And where are you from?’ Baldwin asks Davidson’s character after inviting him up onto the stage.
‘ISIS!’ Davidson responds. ‘I was a prisoner in Syria until last week when you freed me, so I just wanted to say, thank you for bringing jobs back to ISIS.
He then cheers: ‘I promise that I will make ISIS great again!’
Baldwin, as Trump, responds: ‘Terrific. What that great guy. ISIS is back in a big, big way, folks. And we love that, don’t we?’
SNL has poked fun at Trump’s decision to withdraw troops from Syria by having cast member Pete Davidson play a recently-freed member of ISIS who thanks the President for ‘bringing back jobs for terrorists’
Meanwhile, the sketch also poked fun at Trump’s loyal political ally Lindsey Graham, who also popped up at the fictional rally.
Kate McKinnon starred as Graham, who was described as looking like ‘a scoop of ice cream melting into a suit’.
‘I’m sweating profusely all the time. Even my bodily fluids are trying to distance themselves from me,’ McKinnon, as Graham, replied in a faux Southern accent.
The sketch then took aim at President’s loyal base of supporters by depicting them as bumbling, uncultured conspiracy theorists who take Trump’s word to be gospel.
Kate McKinnon starred as Graham, who was described as looking like ‘a scoop of ice cream melting into a suit’
The sketch then took aim at President’s loyal base of supporters by depicting them as bumbling, uncultured conspiracy theorists who take Trump’s word to be gospel