SNL cold open mocks Trump’s visit to East Palestine as James Austin Johnson’s Donald says ‘Pete Buttigieg is too busy being gay’ and rants about Rihanna alongside new grand juror BFF Emily Kohrs
- The fake Trump mocked Pete Buttigieg, Rihanna and Emily Kohrs
- He joked about having passed out ‘cold McDonald’s’ to East Palestine residents
- Johnson also cracked that Joe Biden was ‘on Spring break in Ukraine’
Saturday Night Live took on former President Donald Trump‘s visit to the disaster in East Palestine, Ohio during its cold opening this week.
The fake Trump, as played by cast member James Austin Johnson, gave a press conference in which he made fun of Pete Buttigieg and eventually brought on Georgia grand jury foreman Emily Kohrs.
‘Hello, it’s wonderful to be here in East Palestine… not a great name,’ opened Johnson’s Trump, incorrectly pronouncing the town’s name to sound like the state of Palestine.
He then joked that current President Joe Biden was ‘on Spring break in Ukraine with his friend Zelensky in the t-shirt, very disrespectful.’
Johnson’s uncanny Trump then recalled a chance meeting when ‘a farmer came up to me, big fella and he said, ‘Sir, we have nothing to eat because our dirt is poison.’ And I said, ‘Well what are you doing eating the dirt? Don’t eat the dirt, folks! You should be eating the cold McDonald’s I bought you.’
Saturday Night Live took on former President Donald Trump’s visit to the disaster in East Palestine, Ohio during its cold opening this week
The impression tends to mimic how Trump will go off on tangents about celebrities sometimes. When he described the rivers in East Palestine as ‘colorful’ he began calling it ‘Fenty Beauty Water’ in a reference to Rihanna’s fashion line.
