‘Saturday Night Live’ Cold Open Features Lin-Manuel Miranda As ‘Hamilton’ Getting Quickly Frozen In Time By A Riffing “King” Donald Trump
deadline.comLin-Manuel Miranda returned to his role as Alexander Hamilton for the Saturday Night Live cold open, in a sketch where he and other founding fathers have their independence celebration frozen in time by Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson), gloating in his return to the presidency .
At the start, Miranda and the other founding fathers went into the lyrics: In America, all men are created equal. America, not England, we do in the sequel.
We will have leaders, but no one thing. In America, we will never have a king. Then, Trump entered and the rap comes to a stop. “Never say never,” Trump said. “Kidding, though in many ways I am not.
I’m in my king era. But just like the founding fathers, I am creating a new country as well, and just like them, we’re doing it very whitely.” The skit featured Johnson’s Trump going on about his inauguration week, reveling in the attention, his blitz of executive orders, and his list of unqualified cabinet nominees, while Miranda’s Hamilton and the other founding fathers stand still.
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