“Saturday Night Live” has been in the eye of the political commentary storm for years. On the Feb. 16 episode, the show’s cold open featured Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump at a press conference where he declared the national emergency to build the wall on the southern border of the United States.
In a response to a question from a reporter (Cecily Strong) asking if he felt enough progress had been made in the talks with China to end the tariff by March 1, Baldwin’s Trump says that no matter how awesome the deal, that Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) would say “and I’m not going to do the voice,” he assures the crowd…“he will say something like ‘Oy Vey’— you know what, I WILL do the voice.”
Then, in what would be Baldwin doing Trump doing Schumer, he loudly says: “Oy vey! What are you? Meshugeneh?”
Later in the episode, during the Weekend Update segment, Schumer (Alex Moffat) and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) (Kate McKinnon) came on to comment on the passing of the budget. Responding to the loud applause Moffat, as Schumer, tells the crowd (with a grin) “no no you’re being silly” as the two say they will not “gloat” over the outcome of the bill.
Schumer didn’t respond to Baldwin’s impression but did respond to Moffat’s portrayal.
Good impersonation, @NBCSNL. But got one thing wrong. I use a flip phone! https://t.co/R7bmYqfNKk pic.twitter.com/RPbwegbdCK
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) February 17, 2019
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