Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update had some final pre-election thoughts on Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally last week, his garbage truck photo op, and more.
“Well, next week America will decide if the next president is Kamala Harris, or if everyone at SNL will get audited,” co-anchor Colin Jost joked, in light of Harris making a cameo during that night’s cold open.
Jost then mocked Trump’s garbage truck photo op, where he was seen looking especially orange while wearing a matching safety vest.
“Trump,seen here being rescued after 30days in a lifeboat, gave a pressconference from inside a garbagetruck with his name on it.And my favorite part was when hetried to open the door of thetruck but missed,” Jost said, cracking up as video of that clumsy mishap played. “My God, he looks as drunk as I’m gonna be Tuesday night.”
“Then later at a rally, Trump saidhe would protect women whetherthe women like it or not,” Jost continued.“For example, he’s going to makeeveryone who is a danger towomen wear an orange vest.”
After Jost addressed Trump’s odd, suggestive interaction with a microphone at that same rally, co-anchor Michael Che turned the racist insults spewed at the GOP nominee’s Madison Square Garden rally last weekend.
“Speakers hurled insults atminority groups, used Nazirhetoric, and suggested thatDemocrats should be slaughtered. But this lady has a weird laugh,so I still can’t decide,” he joked as a photograph of Kamala Harris showed on screen.
“Donald Trump defended himselffrom claims that he’s a fascist,saying, ‘I am the opposite of aNazi,’” Che continued. “Yeah, but opposites attract, so…”