As Trump returns to office, 'SNL' wonders aloud if America has its first elected king
“Saturday Night Live” marked the November election with a smirking kiss of President Donald Trump’s ring, but it returned to more stinging satire Saturday night with a history lesson.
“Saturday Night Live” marked the November election with a smirking kiss of President Donald Trump’s ring, but it returned to more stinging satire Saturday night with a history lesson.
The show enlisted Broadway star Lin-Manuel Miranda to reprise his role in “Hamilton” as a rapping founding father, except this time Miranda was shut down by James Austin Johnson’s peacocking, meandering Trump.
Miranda’s Alexander Hamilton joined a cast of colonial characters in wigs for the cold open.
“What matters is the nation we build,” he said. “Because in America, all men are created equal. America, not England. We’re doing the sequel. And we will have leaders, but no one thing. In America we will never have a king.”
Johnson’s Trump interrupted and took over.
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