Saturday Night Live gave viewers a parody sketch of The White Lotus Season 3 with a fun political twist: This time, all the uber-rich people at the resort are played by people in the Trump administration.
James Austin Johnson’s Donald Trump is cast as Tim Ratcliffe. But instead of getting addicted to Lorazepam because he’s stressed about getting arrested, Trump here is swallowing tiny McDonald’s hash browns because his tariffs caused a global financial crisis.
The role of Victoria Ratcliff, Tim’s oblivious wife who doesn’t know yet about Tim’s legal woes, is played here by Chloe Fineman’s Southern spin on Melania Trump.
“I mean, we are so lucky that America will always be a rich and powerful nation‚” said Fineman’s Melania. “I mean, can you imagine how awful it would be if America lost all its money and no one in the world respected us anymore?”
A drugged-out Trump nodded along, looking at an article on his phone titled, “TRUMP TRIGGERS WORLDWIDE RECESSION.”
Scarlett Johansson returned as Ivanka Trump, host Jon Hamm took on Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Mikey Day and Alex Moffat reunited as an incestuous Don Jr. and Eric.
The Tim/Trump parallels continued: Whereas Tim kept fantasizing about killing his wife and kids, Trump here keeps fantasizing about killing Uncle Sam (played by Andrew Dismukes).
“Don’t do it!” pleaded Uncle Sam.
“I’m gonna do it,” said Trump. “I’m gonna put a 500% tariff on China.”
Trump was stopped from shooting Uncle Sam by a shirtless Vladimir Putin, played once again by former cast member Beck Bennett.
“What’s the matter, baby?” Putin said tenderly rubbing Trump’s shoulders.
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