‘Saturday Night Live’ Cold Open Skewers Donald Trump’s “Most Epic” Cabinet Picks With Alec Baldwin As RFK Jr.

Ted Johnson

16 November 2024 at 11:50 pm·2-min read

The Saturday Night Live cold open featured Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson) meeting in the Oval Office with President Joe Biden (Dana Carvey) and getting visits from some of the president-elect’s new cabinet picks.

“I am very vastly picking the most epic cabinet of all time,” Johnson’s Trump told Carvey’s Biden. “They are some of the most dynamic, free-thinking, animal killing, sexually criminal, medically crazy people in the country.”

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“Who are you thinking about?” Biden asked.

“We’ve got Elon and Gaetz. That’s an alien vs. predator,” Trump said.

Trump and Biden met at the White House on Wednesday, just hours before the president-elect launched a wave of cabinet picks that seemed designed to “own the libs” as much as they were in line with the MAGA agenda. They included Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence, Matt Gaetz for attorney general, and Robert Kennedy Jr. for secretary of health and human services. Gaetz has been accused of having sex with a 17-year-old girl, something he denies. Kennedy has long claimed that vaccines cause autism, even though numerous studies have not found evidence of it.

In the skit, Biden told Trump, “You’re picking a bunch of wacko jackos to test out how compliant the Senate will be with your policies.”

“Yep, that’s what I am doing. It’s all part of a very smart plan that I definitely thought of before you just said that,” Trump responded.

Sarah Sherman played Gaetz, telling Trump, “I’m going to do a great job. If anyone tries to break the law, I’ll tell them what I told my eyebrows — freeze!”

“Of course I had to resign from Congress because the confirmation process comes at the busiest time of the year for me … girls volleyball season.”

Alec Baldwin returned, this time as Robert Kennedy Jr.

“Americans need to 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,” Baldwin’s Kennedy said.

Trump said, “Bobby, I love you. I can’t wait to see what you do with this country in terms of health and with regard to measles outbreak.”

Kennedy responded, “I care deeply about a woman’s right to choose — to choose to give her child polio.” Then, Kennedy complained, “I just wish people would take my appointment more seriously. I gotta go. I got a dead dolphin in my car. I think if I saw it in half and dump it in Central Park.”

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