“Saturday Night Live” poked fun at House Speaker Paul Ryan’s efforts to stem speculation that he is angling for the Republican presidenitial nomination in a potential contested convention.
“I do not want, nor will I accept, the nomination for our party,” said actor Taran Killam, dressed as Ryan, echoing the speaker’s words Tuesday in which he told Republicans to count him out.
The following montage shows Killam constantly surrounded by American flags while blissful campaign ad music plays in the background, as he lays the foundation for what voters should look for in a candidate.
The country needs “someone young and dynamic, with a sick body and a decent face,” Killam said.
In a thinly veiled swipe at GOP front-runner Donald Trump, Killam said the party’s nominee should have a “full head of his own hair and devilish little forelock and long, muscular fingers.”
“Fingers that know what they’re doing. Fingers that have been there,” he added with a wink.
Killam repeatedly says he is not the man for the job, though he cannot deny the point made by his family that there is “a lot of historical precedent” for a president to rise out of a contested convention, like with Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Abraham Lincoln.
But, he says, he already has a job to do: “And that is to be the best speaker of the House I can be.
“A job I swore I would never ever take, and then I did. But come on, that was like six months ago. I would never do something like that now,” Killam says before the video cuts to a screen showing the ad was paid for by Paul Ryan for President.
