Alec Baldwin's back at SNL to skewer Trump's bizarre meeting with Kanye West

Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump on SNL

Alec Baldwin reprised his role as Saturday Night Live's President Trump with a cold open taking on — what else? — the president's strange Thursday meeting with Kanye West.

A recent SNL guest, West did most of the writers' work for them, telling Trump that wearing a Make America Great Again hat gives him "power" and makes him "feel like Superman," and that Air Force One deserves some updates because the president's plane should be "the flyest."

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Bonnie Kristian

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.