Breaking Bad's Walter White is Donald Trump's latest 'alt-good' Cabinet pick on SNL

Kellyanne Conway (Kate McKinnon) and future head of the DEA, Walter White (Bryan Cranston) on SNL — (Image credit: NBC/Screenshot)

Saturday Night Live analyzed President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet picks in its cold open sketch featuring Beck Bennett as CNN's Jake Tapper speaking with Kate McKinnon's Kellyanne Conway. "Are these bad picks?" Tapper asks after running through a few real-life nominations. "No, Jake, they are not bad," Conway answers. "They are alt-good."

Midway through the interview, Tapper breaks the news that Trump has selected his head of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), a high school science teacher from New Mexico named Walter White. "I know the DEA better than anyone," promises Bryan Cranston, reprising his Breaking Bad role, "inside and out." White is a big fan of Trump's border wall plan, too — "nothing comes in from Mexico, meaning a lot less competition for the rest of us."

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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.