The season finale of Saturday Night Live opened with a callback to one of Season 42s most memorable moments as Alec Baldwins Donald Trump sang Leonard Cohens Hallelujah on the Studio 8H stage.
One by one, the cast of characters from the Trump administration joined him by the piano, including Kate McKinnons Kellyanne Conway, Mike Pence (Beck Bennett), Sarah Huckabee Sanders (Aidy Bryant), Steve Bannon (Grim Reaper) and, in a surprise cameo, Scarlett Johansson reprising Ivanka Trump.
The performance was a callback to SNLs post-Election Day episode, a show that followed both Trumps presidential win and Leonard Cohens death, where McKinnons Hillary Clinton sang the 1984 classic to bid farewell to the Clinton character, pay tribute to Cohen and soothe the nations shell shock after Trumps victory.
On the season finale, as impeachment talk and the Russian scandal continues to build around an administration thats left to weather a new scandal seemingly every day, Baldwin serenaded the audience as the president who, potentially, might not be in office anymore when SNL returns for Season 43.
Im not giving up, because I didnt go anything wrong, Baldwins Trump said at songs conclusion. But I cant speak for these people and live from New York, its Saturday night.