‘Saturday Night Live’ Cold Open Features Donald Trump Talking About TikTok Ban, And A Reminder That Media Can’t Resist His Craziest Rhetoric
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deadline.comThe Saturday Night Live cold open saw James Austin Johnson returning as Donald Trump, two days before the inauguration, this time talking about the TikTok ban.
About an hour before the show aired, TikTok really did go dark as a new U.S. law was about to go into effect restricting the social media platform from U.S.
app stores. The law gave Chinese parent ByteDance a time frame to sell TikTok or face a ban. A sale never happened, and TikTok said the ban went into effect at midnight.
The premise of the SNL open was MSNBC’s coverage of inauguration weekend, with Rachel Maddow (Sarah Sherman) and other anchors struggling to focus on the substance of Trump’s policies but perpetually distracted by his many wild proposals and Truth Social posts.
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