'SNL' Cold Open: Trump Bails on Sketch to Flirt With Audience
In the season 50 finale, Trump recaps his Middle East tour before taking a load off in the front row of the audience, surrounded by women
Saturday Night Liveâs Donald Trump, appearing in the showâs cold open yet another time, walked out of the season 50 finaleâs first sketch to flirt with women in the audience and to formally sign off until Septemberââif we still have a country.â
Trump (James Austin Johnson) began by proclaiming how much he enjoyed his three-country tour through the Middle East.
âIt was very much a boys trip,â he said alongside Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (Marcello Hernandez). âI donât think I saw a single woman. Whatâs up with that, huh? All the time just walking into a roomful of boys. âHi, boys.â âBoys again!â The women are all hiding. Itâs like a nation of Melanias.â
When the heir to the Saudi throne invited Trump to build a palace next to his and stay, Trump declined.
âSadly, I canât. I have to get back home,â he said. âLuckily, we have our own little slice of Saudi Arabia in America: a dry desert area filled with people who are way too into their religion. We call ours Utah, and I do very well there. So I canât stay here in the Middle East. In fact, you know what? I canât even stay in this sketch much longer.â
âBecause itâs the SNL finale. Season 50âworst one yet!â he joked, walking off the stage towards the audience.
Trump then instructed a man in the front row to get up and âgo eat Sun Chips in the hallwayâ so he could take his seat.
âIâm here to break the fourth wall,â he announced, before turning to the women seated around him.
âOh, itâs nice here with all the young, pretty people,â he went on. âLook at her, wow. Sevens or more. Sevens or more, sit on the floor, six and below, to the bleachers you go!â
âThatâs like a Gutfeld jokeâkind of rhymed,â he added, referring to Fox News host Greg Gutfeld.
SNLâs Trump concluded by noting that while he will be gone for the summer, the real president is unfortunately inescapable.
âSince itâs the finale, that means after tonight you wonât be seeing here here for a while,â he said. âWell, not the fake, fun version of me that makes you smile. The real one will still be on. You canât escape me, right? Iâm everywhere. Even in your dreams, like the late, great Freddy Krueger.â
âSo, see you again in the fallâif we still have a country, right?â he said. âItâs a coin toss.â