Trump Pissed After SNL Cold Open Targets His Retweeting Habits Plus Other Highlights from This Weekend’s Episode

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Emma Stone hosted Saturday Night Live this weekend for the third time, and no surprise, she was right at home. Not only has she hosted two times before, but she’s often been featured in segments and digital shorts over the last 6 years, and she was a part of the SNL 40 celebration.

The show opened familiarly- with Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump, and Kate McKinnon in her new post-election role as a frustrated Kellyanne Conway dealing with Trump’s poor decisions. The cold open made fun of Trump’s social media habits- specifically his odd retweet choices- showing various Twitter users getting excited to learn that they’ve been retweeted by the President-Elect. Like a 16 year old high school student named Seth played by Pete Davidson who loves the Anaheim ducks and wants to make America Great Again. Another tweeter has a photo of a skull with two guns going through its head and the word “infidel.” The third tweet was sent by a Twitter user who says liberalism is a mental illness. The tweets are all real and were really retweeted by Trump. Trump of course, was not amused. He called SNL “unwatchable”, and “totally biased” adding “not funny and the Baldwin impersonation just can’t get any worse. Sad.”

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Other highlights included a digital short about a scented candle- a well topic that Saturday Night live has made fun of before, a double cameo from Jennifer Aniston, and a cute monologue from Emma Stone. Not necessarily a memorable episode, but there were enough laughs to make it worth the watch.