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saturday night liveWeekend Update focused on Donald Trump’s bizarre moments at the southern border this week and Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell’s announcement that he would resign as Senate majority leader.
On Thursday, Trump toured the Texas-Mexico border with an increasingly radical Gov. Greg Abbott, and at one point waved He attacked immigrants through a barbed wire fence, claiming: “They love Trump, can you believe it?”
Co-anchor Colin Jost had a reasonable response in light of President Trump’s comments, close to Hilter, that immigrants “taint the blood of our nation.”
“No, I can’t believe it! Immigrants hate you!” he said. “They just walked a thousand miles to get to the edge of this river, and they’re probably thinking: Is some weirdo in a Trump costume beckoning us into this country?”
As for McConnell, his face has long been the target of Weekend Update’s jabs, but Jost and Michael Che didn’t throw any punches.
As Choi joked, “Here I am catching up on news from the Middle East,” a smiling McConnell said. It wasn’t until 1968, when I lost to the Devil in a fiddle contest.
“A lot of people are saying it’s his fault he’s resigning.” bad relationship “I agree with Donald Trump, but look, just because you hate someone doesn’t mean you can’t have a good working relationship with them,” Che continued, glancing in Jost’s direction.
Jost then explained that the grinning Kentucky senator had just seen the 2013 drama film. 12 years of slavery. McConnell’s successor, he continued, would be the current second-ranking Republican in the Senate, a “frozen fetus with an assault rifle.”
Jost concluded with a few more parting shots of McConnell. “This is what I saw after rearranging the blind woman’s furniture.”
Mr. McConnell “gave a moving speech on the Senate floor announcing his retirement,” Mr. Jost added. “Seeing that, I honestly started to respect Mitch McConnell for watching a single mother sell her blood for diaper money.”
