SNL's Donald Trump isn't quite sure where to begin with this whole president thing

Alec Baldwin reprised his role as Saturday Night Live's Donald Trump for the first time since the election in a sketch imagining Trump realizing he is in waaaay over his head with this whole president thing.

As Kate McKinnon's regretful Kellyanne Conway presents Trump with one transition consideration after another — the Pentagon is really excited to finally hear that secret plan to defeat the Islamic State! — the president-elect becomes visibly anxious. He has just two sources of comfort: One, that Hillary Clinton is still up in the polls. And two, Vice President-elect Mike Pence is gonna do everything, right?

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.