Trump, Bolton, and Hunter Biden spark SNL's action-packed fantasy impeachment trial

Alec Baldwin. — (Image credit: Screenshot/NBC)

Have you found President Trump's impeachment trial boring so far? If so, Saturday Night Live's latest cold open provided its audience with a look at what might've been.

Saturday evening's episode opened with a disinterested Chief Justice John Roberts (played by Mikey Day) presiding over the Senate trial as he's doing in real life, only to be quickly replaced by Kenan Thompson's Judge Greg Mathis, who injected some enthusiasm into the previously listless proceedings. Thompson's Mathis called witnesses to the stand, including Cecily Strong's drama-loving, Harry Potter fan fiction-writing John Bolton, and Pete Davidson's hoverboarding Hunter Biden.

Alec Baldwin then returned as Trump, who served as his own defense. Watch the full clip below. Tim O'Donnell

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Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.