‘SNL’ Cold Open features Trump, Harris teams competing in ‘Family Feud’
“Saturday Night Live’s” Cold Open this week featured former President Trump’s team facing off against Vice President Harris’s team in “Family Feud.”
As a play on the ongoing conversation about whether a second presidential debate would occur before Election Day, which Trump has said won’t happen, the actors took the stage with host Steve Harvey, played by Kenan Thompson.
Trump, played by James Austin Johnson, and Harris, played by Maya Rudolph, joined the podium to compete.
“I’m telling you Steve, she’s going to be horrible at this game. She’s a very low IQ person. The whole world is laughing at her because they don’t respect her like they respected me,” Johnson said, pointing to Trump’s recent remarks about Harris’s intellectual ability.
Thompson asked the candidates to name something they keep in a glove compartment. Rudolph buzzed in and began telling a story about being raised in a middle-class family by her mother, a line Harris uses frequently on the campaign trail.
As Rudolph continued her story, Thompson pressed her on the glove compartment question. She said she keeps a “big ‘ole Glock.” Harris revealed last week in an interview that she owns a Glock and has fired it at a shooting range.
Harris’s running mate, Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.), played by Jim Gaffigan, said he keeps “hot hands, napkins from Runza, and gotta have Tums in case I eat something spicy like tomato.” Thompson said it was “white nonsense” and the answer didn’t make it on the board.
In a joke on President Biden’s age, Dana Carvey mixed up which TV game show he was on.
When turned over to the Republicans, Trump’s running mate Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), played by Bowen Yang, and Trump’s son, Eric Trump, played by Mikey Day, said they were told they couldn’t speak.
Johnson, as Trump, said the glove compartment question was very unfair because he has never ridden in the front seat of a car.
In a typical Trump fashion, Johnson rambled about immigrants and China for his answer. Thompson said “show me dementia” and the answer didn’t turn up a result.
Saturday Night Live kicked off its 50th season recently and is already diving deep into the political references as Election Day nears.
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