Alec Baldwin led a parody of Queen’s
Saturday Night Live’s season finale was packed with sharp barbs aimed at the GOP: It kicked off with Alec Baldwin reprising his role as Donald Trump and leading the cast in an epic parody of Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Now,” and during “Weekend Update,” Leslie Jones ripped the lawmakers who passed Alabama’s strict anti-abortion law.
Before breaking out into song during the cold open, Baldwin’s Trump summed up his administration’s accomplishments so far this year, and cheerily described his summer plans: “I’m very excited about summer, getting around to those things that I never have time for — golf, visiting friends in prison, and enjoying all the fantastic new tariffs with China.”
“It’s been an incredible year for our economy, our American economy is on fire — I’m not gonna tell you if it’s a fire that keeps you warm or burns your house to the ground, but it’s some kind of fire,” he continued.
Baldwin’s Trump then broke out into song, joined by Cecily Strong playing Melania Trump, Beck Bennett as Vice President Mike Pence, and Aidy Bryant as White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
“But they call him Mr. Bad Advice, cause he listens to the Fox News guys,” Strong’s Melania crooned, followed by Bennett’s Pence singing, “I want to make a super-straight man out of you!”
There were other drop-ins as well: Chris Redd played a MAGA hat-wearing Kanye West, Kenan Thompson came in as Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas, and Robert De Niro appeared as special counsel Robert Mueller.
