SNL's Trump is visited by the Ghost of Christmas Yet-to-Come, a gleeful Hillary Rodham Clinton


Saturday Night Live opened with Alec Baldwin's President Trump hiding away from the White House Christmas party — where Kate McKinnon's Kellyanne Conway "got so drunk [she] told the truth" — because the investigation into former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn has him in "pouty baby mode." Left alone in the Oval Office, Trump is soon visited by a Jacob Marley-esque Michael Flynn, "the Ghost of Witness Flipped."
Flynn is merely the first Christmas Carol-inspired apparition to pay President Scrooge a visit, culminating in an appearance from the Ghost of Christmas Yet-to-Come, a positively gleeful Hillary Rodham Clinton who has received "the greatest Christmas gift of all: sexual gratification in the form of [Trump's] slow demise." Watch the full skit below. Bonnie Kristian
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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.
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