During the cold opening of the most recent “Saturday Night Live,” there was an insightful joke about the nature of authoritarianism. Surprising, I know, from a show not usually known for having the most trenchant satire. During a parody of “Fox & Friends,” part of a longer bit about Donald Trump confessing that he committed a coup, the desperate hosts tried to keep him on message about how January 6 was not an insurrection at all. Then suddenly Trump veers left to make an impossible claim about his golf game.
“Did you hear this?” James Austin Johnson, portraying Trump, starts. “I got a hole-in-one. Did anybody hear that?”
“Congrats sir! Please tell about it,” exclaims Heidi Gardner, while playing one of the interchangeable blonde hosts. Her male colleagues nod eagerly, all of them competing to show how obsequious they are before this frankly impossible claim.
The entire bit was about the lies Fox News and Trump tell, but this throwaway joke about Trump’s golf lies nailed the essence […]
Every news photo that I see of tRump always looks like he’s ready to eat a popsicle. Which reminds me, of how 3 year olds are famous for loving popsicles, telling unbelievable tall tales, re-directing, and throwing tantrums, when they are caught being naughty. It’s no wonder SNL creates parody’s of the ridiculousness.
(No insult to popsicles intended)