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Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update took aim at Donald Trump‘s bizarre moment at the southern border this week, as well as Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell announcing he’ll step down as his party’s Senate leader.
Trump, who toured the Texas-Mexico border Thursday alongside the increasingly militant Gov. Greg Abbott, at one point waved at migrants through a barbed wire fence and claimed, “They like Trump, can you believe it?”
Co-anchor Colin Jost offered a rational response, given Trump’s Hilter-adjascent rhetoric about migrants “poisoning the blood of our country.”
“No, I can’t believe it! The migrants don’t like you!” he said. “They just walked a thousandmiles to get to the edge of thisriver and they’re probablythinking: is that weirdo in a Trumpcostume waving us into thecountry?”
As for McConnell, whose face alone has long been the target of Weekend Update jabs, Jost and Michael Che pulled no punches.
A smiling McConnell–“seen here catching up on news from theMiddle East,” as Che joked–“has been leader for almost20 years, but he first gotinvolved in politics back in1968 when he lost a fiddlecontest to the Devil.”
“Many are saying he is leavingbecause of his bad relationshipwith Donald Trump, but come on: just because you hatesomebody doesn’t mean you can’tstill have a very successfulworking relationship with them,” Che continued, before glancing in Jost’s direction.
Jost then described the grinning Kentucky senator as having just seen the 2013 drama film 12 Years a Slave. McConnell’s replacement, he continued, will be theSenate’s current number two Republican: “a frozen embryoholding an assault rifle.”
Jost concluded with a few more parting shots at McConnell: “seen here afterrearranging a blind woman’sfurniture.”
McConnell “gave a moving speech on theSenate floor announcing hisretirement,” Jost added, “which honestly made me startto admire Mitch McConnell, seenhere watching a single mothersell her blood for diaper money.”
