Saturday Night Live targeted the Trump impeachment inquiry on this weeks edition of Weekend Update.
As impeachment gains momentum, President Trump said he may stop referring to the media as fake news and start calling them corrupt news,' said host Colin Jost at the start of the sketch. And the media says they may stop referring to him as President Trump and start calling him Former President Trump.'
Co-hosts Jost and Michael Che proceeded to take aim at Trump and his co-conspirators for their alleged wrongdoings, but Che began to doubt whether it was okay for people to still mock the president.
Trump hasnt been handling this impeachment news well, Che said. I mean, hes been on a Twitter rampage, hes openly called for China to investigate Joe Biden. Not to mention, Che brought up Trumps suggestion for a moat filled with alligators and snakes to be added to his proposed border wall.
I dont know how to ask this, but are we sure that its OK to make fun of this guy? Che asked. Did you ever read Of Mice and Men? Remember how Lenny was really strong? What if Trump is really strong? Ive got a cousin who is also strong. And he loves alligators too, but we dont make fun of him.
Che then compared Trumps 800 tweets in the past month to Chrissy Teigens 218 tweets: Now, obviously I feel like the president should be a lot busier than Chrissy Teigen. But if Trump is as strong as I think he is, then good job, big fella!