‘Saturday Night Live’ brings back Donald Trump after Alec Baldwin retires role
Saturday Night Live has revived its Donald Trump impression, with newcomer James Austin Johnson taking over the role from Alec Baldwin.The latter spoke a year ago of being “overjoyed” at the possibility of losing the role after Trump lost the 2020 US presidential election to Joe Biden, having played the role since the 2016 election.However, the weekend’s episode (November 6) saw Johnson take over the mantle of playing the former US president during the show’s cold open, having also impersonated Biden in recent weeks.In the skit, which lampooned Jeanine Pirro’s (Cecily Strong) Fox News show, Austin’s Trump appeared as he ranted on subjects such as Chris Pratt, Mario, Eternals and Dune.“These PC folks, you can’t please them.