Saturday Night Live opens with the third “Republican kids presidential debate”, where the field of future also-rans make poor cases for themselves before being interrupted by Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson).
He takes potshots at the pitiful competition, including Tim Scott (“We like Skim Scott and his girlfriend … not a lot of chemistry between those two. They make me and Melania look like Taylor and Travis …”) and Vivek Ramaswamy (“He’s a lot like me except for one thing that matters a lot to my horrible, horrible base: white!”); rags on the show’s casting of Ego Nwodim as Ramaswamy (“Poor Ego, you don’t like it, she doesn’t like it”) and John Higgins as “Meatball” Ron DeSantis (“Even SNL doesn’t think he has a chance. If they did it’d be someone like Paul Rudd in there”); and rambles about his own declining mental health (“I say things like: I’m beating Obama! That’s not right, but I say it, it’s fun”) and legal troubles (“They’re saying I committed fraud – not true, not true. I’ve committed a lot of other things – adultery, treason, a lot of fraud, perhaps.”)
