SNL Mocks Trump for ‘Helping’ ISIS Six Minutes After Americans Learn He Killed ISIS’s Leader
By Pluralist | Oct 27, 2019
“Saturday Night Live” picked the wrong week to joke about President Donald Trump’s record on the Islamic State.
During the cold open, the NBC comedy show brought back Alec Baldwin to impersonate the president. The sketch, a parody of Trump’s recent rally near Albuquerque, New Mexico, saw a series of cast members come on stage as stupidly conspiratorial Trump supporters.
At one point, Pete Davidson appeared as an ISIS member.
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“And where are you from? New Mexico?” Baldwin’s Trump asked.

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“ISIS!” Davidson replied. “Yeah, I was a prisoner in Syria until last week when you freed me, so, I just wanted to say, thank you for bringing jobs back. To ISIS. And I promise that I will make ISIS great again! Whoo!”
“Terrific. What a great guy. ISIS is back in a big, big way, folks. And we love that, don’t we? OK,” Baldwin said.
As noted by NewsBusters, six minutes before “SNL”‘s 11:30 Eastern time start, Jennifer Griffin of Fox News tweetedthat ISIS leader Abu-Bakr al-Baghdadi may have been killed in a raid by U.S. forces in Syria. Cable news aired the news shortly after midnight.
By Pluralist | Oct 27, 2019
“Saturday Night Live” picked the wrong week to joke about President Donald Trump’s record on the Islamic State.
During the cold open, the NBC comedy show brought back Alec Baldwin to impersonate the president. The sketch, a parody of Trump’s recent rally near Albuquerque, New Mexico, saw a series of cast members come on stage as stupidly conspiratorial Trump supporters.
At one point, Pete Davidson appeared as an ISIS member.
MORE: Trump Didn’t Tell Congress About Baghdadi Raid So They Wouldn’t Get Everyone Killed, He Says
“And where are you from? New Mexico?” Baldwin’s Trump asked.

00:00

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“ISIS!” Davidson replied. “Yeah, I was a prisoner in Syria until last week when you freed me, so, I just wanted to say, thank you for bringing jobs back. To ISIS. And I promise that I will make ISIS great again! Whoo!”
“Terrific. What a great guy. ISIS is back in a big, big way, folks. And we love that, don’t we? OK,” Baldwin said.
As noted by NewsBusters, six minutes before “SNL”‘s 11:30 Eastern time start, Jennifer Griffin of Fox News tweetedthat ISIS leader Abu-Bakr al-Baghdadi may have been killed in a raid by U.S. forces in Syria. Cable news aired the news shortly after midnight.
Democrats a little while later: Ah man, I don't like this. Let's watch CNN. They can spin this so that we can pretend that it's bad.
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