Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current president of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality. Trump was born and raised in the New York City borough of Queens, and received a bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School. He took charge of his family's real-estate business in 1971, renamed it The Trump Organization, and expanded its operations from Queens and Brooklyn into Manhattan.
The company built or renovated skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. Trump later started various side ventures, mostly by licensing his name. He owned the Miss Universe and Miss USA beauty pageants from 1996 to 2015, and produced and hosted The Apprentice, a reality television show, from 2003 to 2015. Forbes estimates his net worth to be $3.1 billion.
“Oh, it’s wonderful to be here in the town of East Palestine, not a great name,” said the James Austin Johnson portrayed Donald Trump tonight kicking off Saturday Night Live. “I’m here and I brought hats, cameras and hats” he added after taking a swipe at Joe Biden for visiting the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv and Volodymyr Zelenskyy earlier this week and had a visit from his own legal troubles. “That’s why you need me,” the MAGA hat wearing SNL Trump went on to say. “I feel like I could Schitt’s Creek this place.” Just over three days after the former and hoping to be future POTUS made a self-aggrandizing trip to the small Ohio town savaged by a massive chemical burn off that followed a train derailment, tonight’s SNL cold open definitely started out timelier than most the show has had this 48th season.
Having done double duty for months as both Trump and Biden, Johnson once again enthusiastically showed the former is his strong suit.
Modelling what was a trainwreck of an appearance by the real-life in East Palestine on February 22, Johnson riffed on water, Rihanna’s Super Bowl half-time show and “your train exploded and who do we blame?” The answer from SNL’s Trump, as in real life, was Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. “This was his responsibility.
Unfortunately, he was too busy being a nerd and being gay,” Johnson’s Trump near deadpanned to big laughs – as you can see in the video below. “But this would have never happened under my administration People are saying I made the trains less safe.
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