Trump, Jim Jordan’s Failures & “Awful” America Lights Up ‘SNL’s Cold Open

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“Yo-hoo, is this the loser’s room?” asked James Austin Johnson’s Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live’s cold open tonight. “Don’t we love our country, what an awful place it is,” he said later in the skit, nailing the ex-real estate mogul and one of the better political cold opens SNL has had in a long time.

Crashing a one-man pity party by Mikey Day’s phone breaking Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Johnson’s ever better Trump mocked the never-was Speaker of the House for his rejection by his fellow Republicans on the NBC late-nighter Saturday.

Stressing he “prefers the Jordans who win,” SNL’s Trump blew his own horn on what a great Speaker he would be, as some of the GOP wingnuts have suggested. “Sadly, I’ll be too busy campaigning,” Johnson mimicked the much indicted former and perhaps future POTUS “Traveling from city to city, visiting their beautiful courtrooms.” As chaos, confusion and bloodshed continues between Israel and the Hamas-run Gaza, following the terrorist attack on the Jewish state on October 7, the Republican clown show back in DC or the court case sh*t show of the former Celebrity Apprentice host was clearly the direction SNL were going to go in tonight’s cold open.

In a rare case of splitting the difference, they rightly chose to go for a bit of both – with a bit of Chloe Fineman as Rep.