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?"
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