Alec Baldwin reprised his impression of President Trump for Saturday Night Live in a skit imagining how Trump would handle an Independence Day-style alien invasion. The scene was set for Trump to deliver a patriotic tear-jerker of a speech like the movie's President Whitmore, but — well, suffice it to say it doesn't quite work out that way.
"What a beautiful day," Baldwin's Trump begins as he addresses soldiers about to face a formidable alien foe. "Who here loves Trump?"
"Now here's the deal," he continues in a parody of the real Trump's recent remarks about the military. "We're going to beat these aliens because we've got the best military — but we don't win anymore. And the aliens are laughing at us. They're killing us and they're laughing at us."
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Trump's plan, it turns out, involves fighting the aliens by "bring[ing] coal back." "But Mr. President, what about the aliens?" Kenan Thompson's soldier protests. "They just vaporized the entire state of California!" "So then I won the popular vote?" Trump replies. Watch the full sketch below. Bonnie Kristian
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