“Weekend Update” on “Saturday Night Live” had on German Chancellor Angela Merkel (played by Kate McKinnon) respond to Time naming President-elect its “Person of the Year,” one year after her.
“It kind of undermines the honor for me,” McKinnon said. “It’s like winning the Nobel Prize for physics and then next year they give it to Hoobastank. You know, 2016 has been a real Volkswagen. Brexit, Trump, ‘Westworld’ left me with more questions than answers. It was nihilistic even by German standards.”
After a rough year, McKinnon explained that she was cheered up when she received a call from former United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameran, who said to her, “‘Let’s call Donald Trump and pretend to be the president of Taiwan.'”
On the rise of alt-right movement in the U.S., McKinnon said in Germany that is called, “why grandpa lives in Argentina now.”
“Weekend Update” anchor Colin Jost then asked if she has spoken to U.S. presidential election loser Hillary Clinton.
“No, no, she is so deep in the woods, I’m worried she’ll come upon a candy house,” McKinnon replied in a reference to the reported sightings of the Democratic candidate in the woods after losing the election.
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“I had such hopes for Hill. I was so sure we were going to be besties, staying up all night, eating junk food, playing “F” Mary Kill the leaders of Asia,” she said, adding that their favorite movie is “Bad Moms.”
“Of course we would talk about Barack. Oh, my Barack,” she continued, before crooning to Sarah McLachlan’s “I Will Remember You.”
McKinnon said Obama just made his last visit to Germany as president, and that she stole one of his gloves so he would have to come back and get it.
“But apparently he has many gloves,” she said glumly, before doing what she called a “German scream,” which she explained means closing her mouth and shouting her problems into her stomach.
