Sunday, December 18, 2016

Is Saturday Night Live comedy or the essence of fake news? I say fake news! The program should be considered a political donation to Demoocrats.

Trump is shirtless Putin’s pawn on ‘SNL’


“Saturday Night Live” skewered Donald Trump, again, this time casting him as an oblivious, unwitting tool of Vladimir Putin.
In the last “SNL” before Christmas, the show’s cold opening skit set Alec Baldwin’s Trump working on the transition with Kate McKinnon’s Kellyanne Conway who whipped out a list of entertainers willing to play the inaugural – written on a tiny yellow Post-it note.
“So many great names here – I love them both,” Baldwin’s Trump said.
“SNL” then zeroed in on the CIA’s belief that Russian hackers, on Putin’s orders, wreaked havoc on November’s elections in hopes of getting Trump into office.
Base-chested cast member Beck Bennett, as a Santa-esque Putin, came tumbling down the White House chimney, offering him Trump a gift – an “Elf on the Shelf” toy that he instructed him to keep by the room’s WiFi router year-round.
Bennett’s Putin then heaped flattery on Baldwin’s half-wit version of Trump, telling him: “We think you are the best candidate … the smartest candidate … `The Manchurian Candidate.’ ”
All the while Baldwin’s Trump nodded along, unaware of the political thriller book and movie, about a Soviet sleeper agent brainwashed into conspiring to take down America.
The skit also featured John Goodman, as Rex Tillerson – the Exxon Mobile CEO tabbed to be Trump’s secretary of state – walking in unexpectedly to find his pal “Puty.”
The real-life Tillerson is one of Trump’s more controversial cabinet picks, due to the oil man’s close business ties to Russia.
In the “SNL” but, Goodman’s Tillerson and Beck’s Putin gleefully size up oil-drilling spots around the planet – all while ignoring Trump.
“What are you guys talking about?” Baldwin’s Trump said.
“Don’t worry about it,” according to Beck’s Putin.
The real Trump, a constant Twitter critic of “SNL,” hadn’t responded by sunrise Sunday.

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