Yahoo Lifestyle 'SNL' Introduces 'Hot Jacked Trump' In Bid To Get On President-Elect's Good Side
âSaturday Night Liveâ wants Donald Trump to know itâs always had his back.
What began as a stark cold open discussing Trumpâs 2024 election win turned into a snarky endorsement from âSNLâ cast members of the president-elect, who has long promised to seek revenge against his enemies.
Though Ego Nwodim lamented that there is ânothing to protect the people who are brave enough to speak out againstâ the incoming commander in chief, Kenan Thompson claimed he and his cast mates could not be counted among those critics.
âWe at âSNLâ would like to say to Donald Trump: We have been with you all along,â Thompson declared.
Bowen Yang followed, sarcastically adding, âWe have never wavered in our support of you, even when others doubted you!â
âEvery single person on this stage believed in you,â Sarah Sherman agreed.
âSo if youâre keeping some sort of list of your enemies, then. ... We should not be on that list,â Thompson and Marcello Hernandez said in tandem.
After that, âSNLâ debuted its new and improved version of the future president: a muscle-bound, Rambo-infused James Austin Johnson playing âHot Jacked Trump.â
âFrom now on, weâre going to do a very flattering portrayal of Trump because heâs frankly my hero and heâs going to make an incredible president and eventually king,â Johnson declared.
Hashing out a plan for the âworst-case scenarioâ under the Trump administration, Thompson said the world could rely on the âother man we love and trustâ to ferry the world away to a new life on Mars: Elon Musk.
At that point, Musk, portrayed by âSNLâ veteran Dana Carvey, bounded across the stage, pumping his fists and dancing as he pointed to his âDark MAGAâ hat.
âYeah, but seriously, I run the country now,â Carvey said. âAmericaâs going to be like one of my rockets. Theyâre super cool and super fun, but thereâs a slight chance it could blow up and everybody dies. Ha-ha!â
Prior to the election, âSNLâ showed unabashed support for basically anybody but Trump.
Last week, the show even featured a surprise cameo from Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, who acted opposite her onscreen doppelgÀnger, Maya Rudolph.
Watch the full sketch above.
