Urine jokes and inauguration hype highlighted Alec Baldwin’s first portrayal of President-elect Trump in 2017.
The “Saturday Night Live” cold opening focused on Trump’s first press conference as president-elect last week.
Speaking on the upcoming inauguration on Friday, Baldwin said, “hold on to your tits and bits,” pointing to performances from the likes of 3 Doors Down and the “one Rockette with the least money in her savings.”
He said A-list actors like Angelina Jolie, Ryan Gosling and Jennifer Lawrence will attend, courtesy of Madame Tussauds, the wax museum. Baldwin said this as many celebrities have expressed their opposition to Trump, and some, including Baldwin himself, plan to protest the president-elect during inauguration week.
Baldwin’s Trump tried to deflect repeated questions on an unverified report accusing Trump of renting a hotel bed used by President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama so that Russian sex workers could urinate on him while on it.
“I am not talking about the pee pee,” Baldwin said. “Because it didn’t happen. And it wasn’t as cool as it sounds.”
Still, he made repeated gaffes while trying to discuss jobs, making not-so-subtle puns related to piss.
“I am going to bring back a thick stream of jobs back in this country,” Baldwin said. “The biggest, strongest, steadiest stream you’ve ever seen. This country will literally be showered with jobs. Because I am a major wiz at jobs.”
“This will be a golden opportunity for me as president to make a big splash,” he added before asking who is with him, pointing to several reporters in attendance.
“You’re in, you’re in, you’re in,” he said.
Baldwin revealed that TV personality Steve Harvey (portrayed in the sketch by SNL’s Kenan Thompson), who Trump met with at Trump Tower on Friday, is his choice to help nominee Ben Carson run the Housing and Urban Development agency.
Later, Russian leader Vladimir Putin, portrayed by SNL’s Beck Bennett, made a return to the show to threaten Baldwin not to admit that Russia was involved in hacks to undermine Democrat Hillary Clinton in the presidential election.
Pretending to be CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer, Bennett’s Putin held up a “Pee Pee Tape” asking Baldwin if he was sure that Russia was behind the hacks after he finally came around to acknowledge it.
“It was China. I mean Canada. It was Meryl Streep,” Baldwin replied in a quick turnaround.
Signaling that the presser was over, Baldwin again dove in to some accidental urine punnery.
“Thank you all peeing here. I mean for pissing here. I mean for being here,” he said before kicking off the opening credits.
