Saturday Night Live Season 50 Premiere Recap: Maya Rudolph's Kamala Harris Sets the Tone in the Cold Open

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Saturday Night Live that—no matter how you voted in the last two presidential elections, or how you will in this year’s trilogy-conclusion-coded contest—will give you time-traveling goosebumps.The episode aired nine days after the leak of the infamous , in which former president Donald Trump exalted grabbing women “by the pussy.” The is the cold open, the first of the night.

The camera settles in on former cast members and Alex Moffat, both playing journalists moderating a debate between Trump (played, then, by Alec Baldwin) and Hillary Clinton, played by Kate McKinnon.

McKinnon’s take on Clinton by this point in the election was well established: a gleeful ambition monster, a woman who has to be told by her staff that she can’t be her own VP, who by singing “first female president—me-me-me-me-meeee!”As she introduces the players, Strong says, “Please welcome Republican candidate Donald Trump and—” She glances at Moffat. “Can we say this yet?”He shrugs. “Probably fine.”“President Hillary Clinton,” Strong finishes.

The laugh she gets is swift and sure. And—as we know now, of course—wrong.Later in the sketch, when asked to name something she likes about Trump, McKinnon’s Clinton says, “I do like how generous he is.