Alec Baldwin was back as Donald Trump on “Saturday Night Live’s” cold open to inform reporters that he was “completely exonerated” in the House impeachment hearings.
“I said to Sondland: ‘I want nothing — no quid pro quo, Bro,’” Baldwin’s Trump explained, showing his giant hand-written notes on testimony by U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland. “Any quid that I get after that, that’s on them. That’s how it works … just like when you meet a girl and you say, ‘If you’re a cop, you gotta tell me.’”
Besides, “I don’t even know this Ambassador Sondland guy, that’s fake news,” he insisted as he was about to flee to his helicopter. Told Sondland donated $1 million to his inauguration, Baldwin responded: “Well I know him, but I don’t know him know him.”
That’s when a bald Will Ferrell popped up as Sondland, and Baldwin chirped: “It’s so great to finally nice to meet you for the first time.”
“Right, right, right,” Ferrell’s Sondland responded. “Keep the quid pro quo on the low-low.”
“Sondland” then tells the press: “I just want to go on the record and say you guys got to lay off my boy. Everyone loves his ass. Ukraine, Russia, they’ll do anything for this man. I know, I asked.”
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