The thing about being a fan of Alec Baldwin’s history of impressions is that I know that his Donald Trump started out as his Robert DeNiro impression. That being said, Baldwin’s Trump impression is really, really good. Anyway, in the wake of the #TrumpTape, wherein Donald Trump bragged about sexually assaulting women back in 2005, SNL must have completely rewritten their Cold Open debate sketch so that it focus on Trump’s deplorableness. The result was a “breaking news” cut-in on the VP debate sketch so that Baldwin’s Trump could say “p-ssy” three times on air. Considering CNN was dropping the p-bomb every ten minutes on Friday night, I think SNL earned this.
It’s funny, but it’s mostly funny because of Kate McKinnon’s continued amazingness as Hillary Clinton. I could watch Kate-as-HRC drinking champagne from the bottle all night long. Also, Baldwin’s hand gestures are disgustingly perfect. *shiver*
Also, Lin-Manuel Miranda was last night’s host. Here’s his amazing opening monologue.
Perfect monologue is perfect. *kisses fingers*
Photos courtesy of SNL screencaps.
Can Lin just host every week! I’d forgotten how good SNL can be when they get to work with a host who’s really comfortable performing live and doing improv.
He was amazing. And maybe I have Trump on the brain, but I kept noticing he has huge hands.
OMG IKR!!???? Last night was the first time in YEARS I actually laughed watching SNL. The cold open was brilliant, and LM’s opening was AWESOME! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🍾🍾🍾
I love love love Lin-Manuel.
Baldwin nailed it and I can’t wait to see what else he does next.
Her Hillary is so funny. In their version of the first debate, there was the spot where when asked what she thought of Trump’s last rant, she said “I think I’m going to be President!” And this was a continuation of that theme… It probably isn’t too far from the truth at this point.
Trump just can’t quit, we need more SNL election skits!
Will you guys all be here posting for the debate? I could use some of y’alls humor!
LD- I’ll be here! A little circle of wagons is a nice idea….. I am nervous at what he will do and say. I am excited that HRC will bury him will all this info but nervous that will make him loose his top and get abusive.
@Little Darling: I’ll see if I can tear myself away from the train wreck tonight to post. LOL. It is going to be epic!
I really like Baldwin’s Trump and it fits with us becoming more familiar with the real Trump. The Hammond Trump worked because we mostly only knew Trump for years as an eccentric millionaire (fuck you, Donald, you’re not a real billionaire). Baldwin’s Trump is the one we’ve come to know this last year-and-a-half or so, Trump as the morally repugnant orange menace.
He deffinitely is the best Trump impersonator ever. The gestures! The only thing thowing it off is the size of the hands. Too big for Trump
Impression may be split on but anyone else think it might be because AB and the Tangerine Twat are cut from the samecloth? Baldwin doesn’t have a stellar record when it comes to misogyny.
excellent point, @Mushymoo. Takes one to impersonate one. Seamless.
I was thinking the same thing. Trump is an absolutely disgusting human being, but Alec Baldwin has some nerve getting on national television and doing that skit.
Has everyone forgotten how he called his 12-year-old daughter “a thoughtless little pig”, among various other insults and verbal abuse?
He really should worry a bit that he is so excellent at channeling Donald Trump… But I would feel a lot safer with Baldwin having the nuclear codes.
You know…it’s not just the codes we need to worry about. The nuclear football traveling with the President and Vice President (with a spare in the Situation Room in the White House) has more than just the codes. It also has other things inside: a Black Book containing the retaliatory options, a book listing classified site locations, a manila folder with info giving a description of procedures for the Emergency Alert System. It also contains information on sites around the country where the president could be taken in an emergency. There is also high tech communication devices inside so that the President can speak to someone in the Joint Chief of Staff in case of an emergency.
I don’t like the idea of him having access to ANY of those things. He is not smart enough to use them.
If he were President he could easily force us into a DEFCON (Defense Readiness Conditions)1 = Nuclear War is Eminent . (He has been quoted and filmed saying he would “Bomb the s*** out of them” in regards to countries he doesn’t like.) We were at DEFCON 3 on 9/11 teetering on 2, DEFCON 2 during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and DEFCON 2 again during the Gulf War.
I shake inside to see what DEFCON level we would be at the moment he were to take the oath of office.
Absolutely hilarious. Baldwin is perfection.
So pumped for the debate tonight. Destroy him, HRC!
…IF Trump shows up.
He’ll show up. He is not smart enough to go away.
Be prepared to hear about Bill Clinton în this debate.
I’m prepared to hear all about Bill Clinton during tonight’s debate; in response to questions that have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with Bill Clinton, causing Trump to look a bit unhinged and nasty. And I do hope the town hall people call him on it.
Oh he’ll show up..and regardless of any gibberish he spouts, he and his bizzaro world of supporters will proclaim him the winner. Break open the Halloween candy to watch the pumpkin hued zombie that won’t die.
I really hope she punches back with the rape accusations.
I’m excited for tonight’s debate as well! I’m really interested to see how the combo of Anderson Cooper, Hillary’s experience, and the town hall format will make Donald implode this time 😂
I felt relief when I saw that Cooper would be there! I feel like a storm is brewing…..
Is there some sort of face paint for this one??? Are we a certain color? I would feel better if I could put a damn cheese wedge on my head and get out a blow horn or something. My energy needs a tap…..
I’m wearing the only pantsuit that I own and I look ridiculous lol.
I’m already thinking about having an election party…I don’t want to get too far ahead of myself but this video was such a gift. Really made me optimistic about HRC’s chances.
*fingers crossed*
Should we have orange hued snacks (cheetos, Doritos, etc.)?
I don’t see how HC has to do much preparation for tonight, other than showing up. I sense the ship known as DT is already mostly underwater. All it will take is going after Bill or making a face at one of the ‘ordinary’ town hall participants.
I hope HRC is prepared for the worst, especially regarding emails. When an animal like Trump is backed into a corner, they get vicious and desperate. His defense will be offense.
Hilarious and brilliant.
That show was perfection. They all nailed it. I hope Donald Trump realizes he gave a SNL a big orange present.
Talking about orange, do you think Donald Trump’s face looks cheeto orange or dorito orange? I think is a hybrid, like his face looks cheerito orange.
He is peach bellini when on TV., have been assured in person it is much more intense like screwdriver colored and for debates or when he is angry and flushing he is a true tequila sunrise shade changer.
Baldwin is do good as Trump it’s frightening. Kate is excellent as Clinton as well. If all the skits on SNL are this good I might start watching it again.
The Trump interviewer was really good also. The expressions on her face! CNN should hire her.
I just watched on tv that Trump’s campaign manager is considering resigning. Will Roger Ailes take the job?
All his campaign staffers are shitting bricks right now. That video was indefensible and hopefully the nail in his coffin.
Well, we will have our first female president.
Both Kate and Alec were amazing. I loved it.
I almost choked to death I was laughing so hard.
I was squealing all throughout Lin Manuel Miranda’s opening and every time he was on!
I had previously only seen stills of him, and as I watched the opening, I thought, ” Wow- he is one of those men who you cannot fully appreciate until he is in motion. Yum!”
On a miserable note: I read Kelly Oxford’s Twitter timeline after she posted about her own sexual assault in response to Trump. I feel numb. All. Those. Women.
On a jealous Britisher note: why oh why could Theresa May et al not have been caught on tape drowning a thousand kittens or something BEFORE the Brexit vote? It’s too late for dodgy tapes here.
On a happy note: so, so glad to see you guys so stoked that this idiot put his own final nail in his own coffin and it looks as though you have almost certainly headed off disaster at the last minute.
I’m not celebrating yet (Red Sox fans have a very long history of knowing that premature celebrations can be disastrous) but I am breathing a bit easier.
Even funnier for me than SNL last night was the Mary-Chapin Carpenter and Joan Baez concert I attended last night. Mary Chapin re-worked a brilliant, powerful, and hilarious takedown of Trump into “I’ll Take My Chances” and Baez’s single comment, without even naming Trump, was one of the most hilarious and devastating cutting remarks I’ve ever heard. It is no surprise that these two women are not Trump supporters but their expressions of their views was everything.
What was Baez’s comment????
Oh god the Sox are killing me right now, but yeah we pretty much invented the phrase “cautiously optimistic”.
Tell me you are kidding about drowning kittens.
I saw that Twitter timeline too. Reminded me of when a man messed with me on an almost empty bus years ago. He came and sat next to me, which I thought really odd but I thought it would be so rude if I got up and moved. Stupid.
Sorry! It was a tricky one to find a confluence as Theresa May is, obviously, not a man who has a past record of sexually assaulting women! You get my drift though, right?
We’ve learned here to never count our chickies before they’ve hatched…. Nothing will be certain until the votes are actually counted and accepted. Too many people flip flop all the way to the voting booth.
I wish we could stop media from talking about the election on Nov 8 until it’s done. Otherwise people stop voting in states in earlier time zones if the mediots are claiming a winner based on early returns because of the way electoral votes decide it. We need that popular vote to be enormous to repudiate Mr. Orange and his Orangettes.
I vaguely recall one election when they actually did keep a lid on the early returns until everybody had voted, even in Hawaii. Whatever happened to that idea? If nobody is feeding them the info, they would be stuck with just exit polls which are no longer accurate. So we don’t need to trust the media themselves to observe a moratorium. Just make everybody wait.
Fingers crossed.
I’m really, really hoping the outdated electoral college will finally do what it was created to do – keep us from killing ourselves. But then there’s always the issue of third party voters – while I can totally understand people needing to vote their conscience and go 3rd I think it’s also very important to point out that’s how psychopaths like LePage in Maine got elected. It was by a very small margin (something like 37% to the democratic 35%) but the independents running took all the other voters and LePage came into (and stayed) in office. And he is a deplorable human being.
They no longer declare a winner until after the West coast polls have closed, but I think they should consider not doing any election coverage until the West Coast polls have closed.
Sixer: This was one of the biggest takeaways I had yesterday discussing this with my village of lady friends. Hearing story upon story of women who have been grabbed and assaulted just like this. Mind blowing and astonishing and very sad. We ALL can. Not one woman I know said nope, never happened to me. NOT. ONE.
I know. Shocking, right?
A man masturbated in front of me at a bus stop once. I was under-skirt groped on the tube once.
Reading that thread, it really does seem that those women who have never been either physically assaulted or, at the very least, flashed, are in a minority.
How bloody depressing is that?
It’s just a shame and another point of this that I find really kind of angering or misdirected at best, are all of the politicians or whoever is speaking about it, saying oh I would hate for this to happen to my daughter. I have sisters and it’s like dude what about if it happened to you or your son?
I can’t count the number of times I’ve been groped when I lived in New York City let alone if I was in a skirt.
Well, I guess thanks to Cheeto for blowing this out of the water and hopefully having some more Hugh profile recognition to sexual assault in all of its glory. I’m just disgusted Sixer. i’m disgusted and I’m sad and I’m worried and I honestly don’t know how much longer I can take this, my poor sensitive heart!!
That’s the other thing that’s been getting to me, too!
“I have daughters, I wouldn’t like this done to them.”
NO NO NO NO NO NO, you still don’t get it, you idiots! This is you STILL being proprietary about women’s bodies. Your wife and your daughters aren’t your property that you think shouldn’t be interfered with. Women’s bodies don’t belong to men, including if they are fathers or husbands.
I’ve given this a name: Nate Parker Wankery.
I love Nate Parker Wankery! It is crazy to me the logic that you wouldn’t want it done to your property and not think about actual human beings. The first rape laws were about damage to property (I think I am remembering my women’s studies courses correctly) and it’s how these dudes think. I agree that the one thing I love about Trump is how he has caused a spotlight on these issues and how the average conservative politician in the USA feels about women & minorities- and why. And American ideas- locker room banter about trying to f- a woman who works where you are & then becoming her boss later & trying to fire her is not okay.
One of the things I think about is how men are not called out and this happens to every woman but not every man is a perp. There are men out there that are perpetrating consistently and run around hurting women all over the place- like Trump. Why is it not okay to scream on the subway- “that f-er grouped me” and then he can be publicly shamed or punished to make it so that he never does it again without at least some pain. Why, oh why, are women constantly questioned and re-victimized so these men get to do it again.and again. and again. And we don’t scream at the perp because we know that we are not safe and that sucks. I love the stories & reducing the shame around this. I do see change happening and that is great- way to slow for my taste though. We do not deserve to be treated this way and then have it viewed as normal or just “life”.
The “I’ve got a daughter” Nate Parker Wankery summed up:
“I thought all this was perfectly ok until I owned one.”
I really agree that the sharing reduces shame and is a really important thing. I feel like sending Kelly Oxford a bunch of flowers!
A man drove by me on my way home from the bus stop- doors down from my home, and exposed himself. I laughed, and was probably 10 or 12. I don’t think I ever told my parents, which is sad.
When I lived in NYC, I would chill in central park between classes, and if i was sitting in a private area, would carry pervert rocks. I’m a pretty good shot, and it worked for me.
My daughter is 12, a young 12, and it breaks my heart that we have to have some talks about keeping safe as a woman.
The more we talk, the safer we all become. You guys rock.
Alec has him down perfectly. Robert DeNiro’s vid really hit home. He said every word he felt in his heart about this person with so much hatred. How did this happen. How could this corrupt maniac be the candidate for President. Of course he will go after Bill Clinton tonight as promised……Hillary who actually prepares for the debates will be ready for whatever he throws at her. Thank God for the electorate…..this dude has to disappear. He’s scarier than the plague.
Lin was amazing and Kate and Alec were great!!! Thank you SNL for lightening up a depressing election. It scares me how many of my fb friends are supporting Trump, no matter what comes out about him. If he brings up Bill’s infidelity I hope it backfires on him even more. Like he’s trying to imply it’s Hillary’s fault Bill cheats ugh!!!! One of my neighbors put up a fb meme about women reading Fifty Shades of Grey and how can we care about what Donald said. I wrote, have you heard of a concept called consent???? It just boggles my mind how people blindly support him.
I had exactly the same conversation on Facebook — this is about consent (or lack thereof), not about people enjoying sex, for goodness’ sake!
I wouldn’t be too confident about Trump going down.
Yesterday & Friday night were rough on me.. Friday night I was pissed thinking Trump could be our president even though boasting what he did to women. Yesterday my old wounds were open and raw.. all the Trump supporters on FB posting it was just guys being guys or years ago..etc. He really could shoot someone & get away w/ it, they are that devoted! It just all hit so hard & I couldn’t stop crying yesterday. I found myself feeling like that 18 yr old scared young woman I once was..
At 18 I was caught off guard & thrown onto a shelving unit in a locked store room when approached from behind & my bosses tongue shoved down my throat as I frantically fought back..followed by a red neckerchief shoved in my mouth. The harder I fought the more he enjoyed it. Laughing because the store was open & busy & he was getting away with it. He said no one was going to believe me, he was a married “respected father”. I had learned the night he raped me to always trust my instincts. If I felt creep vibes in another, never let my guard down..Trump gives off those vibes & thensome.
I have been raped, sexually violated, sexually assaulted by men who felt as entitled as Trump.. my question is
how can we have an admitted sexual predator in the whitehouse & then expect to prosecute other predators in the courthouse?
I couldn’t bring myself to watch SNL last night.. I did watch the video this morning. I think my old wounds will need to try to overcome what happened all over again because I was tearing up, got chills, & visibly shaking just watching the skit, they were so spot on. God help us if Trump is elected.
Xoxoxoxoxoxo and hugs green eyes. It’s been a rough and trigger filled past few days for sexual assault victims. Lots of love to you hon. You’re not alone. ❤️
I am so sorry, Greeneyes. I feel like nothing else I say can voice my sympathy and support any better than that. Just know that you fully have both.
My assault at 14 was thwarted by a friend, and at 50 I still feel agitated thinking about it, and like you, this whole Trump bullsh1t campaign makes me shudder at how rampant this male behavior & entitlement is. I cannot begin to understand what this must be like for you and so many others whose assaults were not stopped in time.
My fear is: will there be an increase in visible sexism and sex crimes if Hillary is elected, the way racism became so much more pervasive and vicious ager Barak was elected?
My heart is with you. Hugs.
I think there will be a backlash once another wave of feminism happens (are we in one now?) and it is what happens during growing pains in a society. I have been so surprised at the white anger toward black lives matter movement so I think we will have that from sexist men (and women) towards a movement to lower sexism & abuse. Hope not. I don’t think it will put women at more risk, though, and I hope it makes us safer. Things to think about……
@Greeneyes, I was so moved by your comment. As a fellow survivor I just don’t know how the women of America can look at this piece of garbage/scum, and consider that he is a viable candidate for the highest office in the land. I was thinking that maybe after this debacle is over, and I sure hope it will be soon, the Orange One Who Shall Not Be Named By Me, will bob up and admit that it has all been a sham, and we have been Punk’d. One can only hope!
I was also gobsmacked by Little Darling’s consensus of village ladies, that NONE of them did not have a story of being assaulted in one way or another by a predatory person. How depressing! Is it that we are not raising the next generation to respect the rights of others, or is it intrinsic to all societies that these beasts are allowed to behave with impunity, and their victims are just supposed to “deal with it”?
Again, Greeneyes, I am so sorry for your horrific treatment, and I wish you every kindness and peace in the future. Sisters stand together!
All my good thoughts to you Greeneyes. Thank you for sharing your story and I hope that guy rots in hell.
Personally, I try to not think about the abuse that I have suffered and go on about life but things come up and make me think of them. When I do succumb and let myself be sad, tell my story and try to check my shame, then I feel much better then if I just try to bury my head and “get on with it”. This is an ongoing battle that I have- to avoid or to feel. And to not diminish shame. My hope is that sharing & talking helps……for me it sucks at the time too when my feelings are so strong but maybe after a storm is when the air is the clearest. Avoiding it or acting like it is normal has never served me well in the end and comes out sideways- and I think it’s gotten America into some big trouble. (see- Trump circa 2016).
Damn it, Greeneyes- I wish that had not happened to you (((()))) I am glad that we are not alone and that it feels like a good time for things to change and for us to see it and be a part of it.
Typo- I meant that I struggle with diminishing my own shame. I guess Freudian Slip put the “not” in my comment because there is a huge part of my brain that tells me that my abuse is my own fault- or at least my fault for not just getting over it & ‘moving on’.
I came very close to being raped myself. I was working as a house painter and a carpenter was also working in the home which was being newly built. I was painting ceilings and complained about a cramp in my neck. The carpenter, at the time 40 yrs my senior, started massaging my neck. I was creeped out, but let him continue (older,experienced and wiser – I would now have the strength to tell him to bug off). He then turned me around, his hand on my back, pushing my face towards his, & told me that he liked me and thought I felt the same way for him. Luckily the couple buying the home started knocking on the back glass sliding doors, interrupting him. The door was locked. I let them in & asked them why they walked through the mud to the back and didn’t use the front door. They said it was locked. Then I knew I was in real trouble, so I left my brushes, roller, etc and left. My dad had that carpenter up against the wall with his hand around his neck the next day.
You’ve been through too much in one lifetime, green eyes. Hugs ❤️
Thank you for sharing and no words. I get it, you are not alone. You have a brave heart, true spirit and courage greeneyes! From the beginning I have been shocked, horrified, in disbelief that in our so called enlightened day and age peple couldn’t understand that a man who despises others so much is evil. Oh, Trump hates minorities, if you aren’t a minority you didn’t protest-BS because you aren’t one? He hates poor people, democrats, independents, immigrants and women, still his party didn’t truly denounce him. But, show a video and audio of him verbally and physically assaulting young, slender white women and an uproar. We see you Republicans, when it applies to your wives, sisters, daughters it’s not ok, but for all the others you couldn’t stand up. Your “property” is off limits but as far as anyone else is concerned, meh. We see you, we know you, we have dealt with y’all our entire lives. Either see the error of your ways and change or get the hell out of the way. We see you!!
AB was certainly great, but when the camera switched to Kate and at first all we saw was her back as she danced. It was glorious! The champagne swigging was great also, and I hope that HRC will be celebrating soon!
Amen!
#GayForMcKinnon
LOL. She is pretty wonderful.
I now get why people think Lin-Manuel is adorable. He’s much better looking in action than in photos and his mannerisms remind me of an ex-boyfriend who was incredibly hot.
Oh, haha! I said something very similar upthread!
Count me in! I didn’t get it, not even in car karaoke. But here on SNL…yes please. Maybe it’s that his hair is short now though.
kate as kelly anne ‘s “perfect day” was the funniest thing, i love her
yes! this was brilliant!
godspeed to us all tonight and through Nov 8…
hugs, celebitchy nation!
Funny but really not funny. Funny would be if this were done and dusted and Clinton were not about to participate in a debate in which the grotesque has already clarified his agenda, which is to take her down by using her husband against her. And people are looking forward to this?
At this late and crucial stage of the game, what a truly grim snapshot of the state of American politics.
As an American citizen, I feel so embarrassed by this Trump debacle. And the worst part is I think my mom is voting for Trump. She mentioned Hillary with hate in her voice. I didn’t go into it with her, i don’t want to fight with my mom. And she and her husband say how bad this country has gotten. I don’t get it, what is wrong with gays getting married? And the open-mindedness of young people? I just don’t get the mindset of some people. Just scary, this election. I hope like h@ll he doesn’t get elected.
It’s because all they watch is Fox News and Sean Hannity and listen to Rush Limbaugh. They drink the fear-mongering Kool-Aid. I read an article on a site not that long ago about the author talking about parents just like that, and how it’s become unbearable to spend much time with
his parents as a result, Fox News always on in their house, consumed by it. Many people on the site posting all had similar stories. Many didn’t remember their parents being this bad when they were younger.
Can it be both? Creepy and funny? Because he makes my skin crawl anymore.
I always pronounce Manuel with three syllables, so I feel like my whole world has been rocked by this announcement.
I think last night was the most consistently excellent SNL episode I’ve ever watched. In addition to the election stuff, the “Music Man” skit about the Wells Fargo scandal was particularly wonderful. And bravo to Lin-Manuel Miranda for poking fun at himself by playing a substitute teacher trying to reach students through hip hop.
Trump and the nukes are the combo that scare me more than anything else in world events ever have. His attitude toward nuclear weapons and their use, combined with all the past two presidents have done to expand the power of the executive branch beyond reasonable checks and balances, scare the living daylights out of me. Every other election, I’ve thought it won’t be the end of the world no matter who won. Not this time. I wish I could convince some of my friends and family how serious this all is.
I am someone who lives in one small European country and watching news with my family and friends lately ends with “What the hell is happening in USA?!” Seriously, what is this? How this rasist man is so close to become president of your country? I honestly hope that won’t happen. This is really scary, scary for entire world. He doesn’t know or understand world politics, he is so unfit to be president that I am so shocked that Republican party did this. I am more scared to think what kind of people support him? Forgive my english.
Sofia: Thank you for your reflection and concern for this election year in the US.
We were wondering what the rest of the world is seeing, as we are worried too. Trump is a reflection of the 40% of Americans who are fed up with politics and want change against immigration, taxes against the middle class and jobs going overseas. But the sad thing is voting for Trump is not going to change America for the better. His racist policies, lack of diplomacy skills in working with Europe, is a concern, as well as his reputed close ties to Putin.
The reported news is that Russians/overseas hackers will hack the voting machines in Trump’s favor.
We need Anonymous to hack/return this election from any overseas influence towards
Trump.
Hilarious and right on the money.
The “Family Feud” skit was also great – with Ivanka and her two dead-eyed brothers at her side. It captured all three of them perfectly.!