Playing prognosticator this week, “Saturday Night Live” predicted who President-elect might pick to run his Drug Enforcement Agency.
In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper (played by Beck Bennett), top Trump aide Kellyanne Conway (Kate McKinnon) talked about her boss’s Cabinet during the cold opening.
After discussing Trump’s “unconventional” picks for EPA administrator and labor secretary, Bennett suggested that the billionaire businessman is selecting nominees to “specifically undermine the agencies the very agencies they head.”
“Are these bad picks?” he asked McKinnon.
“No Jake they are not bad. They are alt-good,” McKinnon shot back.
Then it was revealed who Trump picked to run the agency in charge of domestic enforcement of federal drug laws and for coordinating and pursuing U.S. drug investigations around the world: a teacher-turned-crystal meth dealer from New Mexico.
Bryan Cranston, sitting in to reprise his roll as Walter White from the hit-AMC series, came highly recommended by Steve Bannon, Trump’s chief strategist, McKinnon said.
“He’s the best, we’ve had some times,” Cranston said, before revealing Bannon found him in the comments section on Brietbart News, the online outlet Bannon used to run.
“I’m really surprised he tracked me down because I’ve kind of been off the grid for a while,” said Cranston.
“I know the DEA better than anyone, inside and out,” said Cranston. He added that he likes the president-elect because “he acts first and asks questions later.”
Cranston also praised Trump because he wants to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. It means “a lot less competition for the rest of us,” he said.
“You mean jobs?” asked Bennett.
“Sure,” Cranston replied with a chuckle.
Cranston is a great fit for the Trump administration because he is “first and foremost” in support of small business, McKinnon said.
“Donald Trump and I agree, it’s time to make America cook again,” Cranston said, a nod to Trump’s campaign catchphrase. “We want to fill this nation with red, white and a whole lot of blue.”
Last week, “SNL” dedicated its entire cold opening to a real-life flurry of retweets by Trump, imagining the tweetstorm taking place during a national security briefing from Trump Tower.
The real President-elect Trump wasted little time to denounce the skit on Twitter, calling it “unwatchable!”
Watch the fule clip here:
