Alec Baldwin has returned to Saturday Night Live as President Donald Trump in a cold-opening designed to remark on his questionable sources.
Set at a military base under alien attack, which is a spoof of the movie Independence Day, Baldwin's Trump gets debriefed by an officer, played by SNL regular Kenan Thompson.
"The aliens are laughing at us and they're killing us. Mr. President! We have to do something!"
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Mr. President: pic.twitter.com/rAdOQTcSu6
"Actually, I heard the aliens are already here," Baldwin's Trump says. "They've been hiding in this country for hundred of years. They are shape-shifters."
Thompson's character asks: "Where are you getting this information?"
"From a very reputable source: Infowars," Baldwin's Trump. "It's a radio show hosted by Alex Jones. You know he's legit because he's always taking off his shirt."
Jones, it should be noted, is a far-right conspiracy theorist, whose show Infowars has been labelled as a fake news website.
Let's try that one more time... #SNL pic.twitter.com/EO9qc8mdWZ
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Baldwin has already signalled that his time impersonating the president is numbered, recently telling Extra TV: "The maliciousness of this White House has people very worried, which is why I'm not going to do it much longer, by the way, the impersonation. I don't know how much more people can take it, you know."
Baldwin last appeared on SNL a month ago (on February 11) and even then he took a back seat to Melissa McCarthy's spoof of Sean Spicer, who cold-opened the show.
SNL's guest host Scarlett Johansson this week portrayed first daughter Ivanka Trump, spoofing a commercial for Ivanka's fictitious perfume, 'Complicit', in an attempt to question her values too.
"A feminist. An advocate. A champion for women," says the voiceover as the camera then pans to three skeptical women, with the voiceover adding, "but, like, how?"
Introducing the newest fragrance from Ivanka Trump. #SNL #Complicit pic.twitter.com/iOvia8csHk
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