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Saturday night Livewas mocked openly President Donald Trump objects to heavily redacted Epstein files and renaming the Kennedy Center in an acrimonious Christmas episode.
James Austin Johnson continues his presidential streak and mocks the Trump administration on Claims to be “the most transparent in history” Hundreds of pages of long-awaited documents were redacted when they Partially released Friday by the Justice Department.
Trump appeared only a few times in the thousands of documents, and one of the photos that emerged showed the president Removed by DOJ on Saturday, Democrats said. Trump is not accused of any wrongdoing.
“With respect to the files, we are being very transparent,” Trump began of Johnson. “Because Jeffrey Epstein was a terrible man, and I didn’t know him, and I liked him a lot.”
“We released all the files, and I’m frankly feeling pretty good,” he said sarcastically. “We had to redact some sensitive stuff, but you get the gist here…”
Johnson then turned to a huge file next to him, which had been redacted, except for these words: “Trump didn’t do anything bad.”
“Look, it’s all there. Can you believe it?” He said.
The humorous version of Trump joked that he was renaming several government buildings after himself “because we had to remove it from a number of files.”
“We have to put them somewhere,” Johnson said.
The December 20 cold open also mocked Trump’s hand-picked board that voted to rename the iconic Kennedy Center: The Donald J. Trump and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.
“We are renaming the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which will now be called the Trump-Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts No Homo,” Johnson said.
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“I’m actually going to rename several of our other monuments as well…the Trump-Washington Memorial…the Trump Lincoln Memorial,” Johnson said, showing mock-up images of historic sites bearing the president’s name.
The approximately five-minute play mimicked the style of Trump’s rambling speeches, Where he often brags about his cognitive test scores,
“I’m doing my own version of the Nativity now, where the kings of the Middle East bring me gifts like gold and airplanes and casino deals in Dubai,” the actor said. “But unlike at birth, they are not visible on the camel. And I know the camel, I know it very well. I know it from my mandatory daily cognitive testing.”
“I always identify the camel correctly. It is a rugged horse,” he continued. “That’s how I know a camel to be a rugged horse.”
Saturday’s show, hosted by Ariana Grande, marked bowen yangThis is the last as he had previously announced his exit mid-season after seven years.
actor and comedianThe 35-year-old shared a carousel of images on Instagram, showing her with her fellow cast members on 30 Rock.
“I loved working at SNL, and most of all I loved the people there. I was there at a time when many things in the world began to seem meaningless, but working at 30 Rock taught me the value of showing up somehow when people make it worthwhile,” his lengthy caption began.
“I’m grateful for every minute I spent there,” he said.