'SNL' Goes After Trump's $5,000 'Bribe' With Blistering Campaign Parody

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‘Saturday Night Live’ opened its broadcast with a cold-open sketch mocking President Trump's repeated promise of a $5,000 check to Americans if Republicans win the midterms, with James Austin Johnson playing Trump delivering a mock campaign ad from party headquarters.

In the sketch, the Trump character explicitly says the $5,000 promise is not a bribe because he has no intention of following through, before pivoting to riff on Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton and record identical victory and defeat speeches for midterm night.

The segment also folded in jokes about Trump's rhetoric urging supporters to imagine him on the ballot and his history of claiming victory regardless of outcome, continuing the show's long-running targeting of the president's public statements.

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A comedy writer just has to listen to the man talk and type it down, and that is about the whole joke right there. When your actual quotes are funnier before the writers' room touches them, the problem isn't the show. It's the material walking around giving speeches.

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