‘SNL’ Weekend Update Roasts Trump Waving at Migrants, McConnell Stepping Down

Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update took aim at Donald Trump’s bizarre moment at the southern border this week, as well as Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell announcing he’ll step down as his party’s Senate leader.

Trump, who toured the Texas-Mexico border Thursday alongside the increasingly militant Gov. Greg Abbott, at one point waved at migrants through a barbed wire fence and claimed, “They like Trump, can you believe it?”

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Co-anchor Colin Jost offered a rational response, given Trump’s Hilter-adjascent rhetoric about migrants “poisoning the blood of our country.”

“No, I can’t believe it! The migrants don’t like you!” he said. “They just walked a thousand miles to get to the edge of this river and they’re probably thinking: is that weirdo in a Trump costume waving us into the country?”

As for McConnell, whose face alone has long been the target of Weekend Update jabs, Jost and Michael Che pulled no punches.

A smiling McConnell–“seen here catching up on news from the Middle East,” as Che joked–“has been leader for almost 20 years, but he first got involved in politics back in 1968 when he lost a fiddle contest to the Devil.”

“Many are saying he is leaving because of his bad relationship with Donald Trump, but come on: just because you hate somebody doesn’t mean you can’t still have a very successful working relationship with them,” Che continued, before glancing in Jost’s direction.

Jost then described the grinning Kentucky senator as having just seen the 2013 drama film 12 Years a Slave. McConnell’s replacement, he continued, will be the Senate’s current number two Republican: “a frozen embryo holding an assault rifle.”

Jost concluded with a few more parting shots at McConnell: “seen here after rearranging a blind woman’s furniture.”

McConnell “gave a moving speech on the Senate floor announcing his retirement,” Jost added, “which honestly made me start to admire Mitch McConnell, seen here watching a single mother sell her blood for diaper money.”

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