Welcome to The White POTUS.
“Saturday Night Live” spoofed “The White Lotus” with a viral sketch that took goal at President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
“The White POTUS” skit begins with Chloe Fineman as Melania Trump, channeling Parker Posey’s character Victoria Ratliff from the HBO present’s third season set in Thailand.
“Hun? Donald, are you getting ready? Hello? Earth to Donald, it’s your wife, Melania. Are you OK?” Fineman’s Melania says to James Austin Johnson’s Trump, who’s consuming rooster nuggets out of a capsule bottle — a reference to Jason Isaacs’s Timothy Ratliff getting excessive on lorazepam within the present.
The mock Ratliff youngsters (Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sam Nivola and Sarah Catherine Hook within the present) embody Alex Moffat as Eric Trump, Mikey Day as Donald Trump Jr. and Scarlett Johansson as Ivanka Trump.
“We are so lucky that America will always be a rich and powerful nation. I mean, can you imagine how awful it would be if America lost all its money and no one in the world respected us anymore?” Fineman’s Melania says to her household on the dinner desk.
“You would never let our economy go to pieces, right hun?” she tells Johnson’s Trump, who reads a “Trump Triggers Worldwide Recession” headline on his cellphone.
As Day’s Trump Jr. tells his dad that his Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is sitting close by, Jon Gries as Greg in “The White Lotus” seems.
“He says he wants to watch America get bent over and railed by other countries?” Day’s Donald Trump Jr. says, as Fineman’s Melania responds, “You know, some people are just weird. Like that man who arrived on the boat with us, RFK Jr.”
The episode’s host Jon Hamm performs Robert F. Kennedy Jr./Walton Goggins’s Rick, who’s venting about his “crazy ideas” like desirous to stab everybody with a syringe of measles to Sarah Sherman portraying Aimee Lou Wooden’s Chelsea.
In the meantime, musical visitor Lizzo as Natasha Rothwell’s Belinda panics in her resort room and says, “These old white Trump dudes are trying to ruin my life.” After checking her laptop computer, she says, “Oh my gosh, there’s $5 million in my bank account. It was $20 million last week.”
The skit additionally pokes enjoyable on the Carrie Coon, Michelle Monaghan and Leslie Bibb trio, with Heidi Gardner as Secretary of Homeland Safety Kristi Noem, Ashley Padilla as Lawyer Common Pam Bondi and Marcello Hernández as Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
“Hey, people like me right?” Hernández’s Rubio (appearing as Coon’s Laurie) says to the ladies, who stroll away from the desk to gossip about him.
Close to the top of the sketch, Johnson’s Trump fantasizes about killing Uncle Sam, performed by Andrew Dismukes.
“Don’t do it!” Dismukes’s Uncle Sam pleads with Johnson’s Trump, who replies, “I’m gonna do it. I’m gonna put a 500 percent tariff on China.”
However Johnson’s Trump is interrupted by Beck Bennett’s shirtless Vladimir Putin, who rubs the president’s shoulders and says, “What’s the matter, baby?”
The sketch concludes with a parody of Saxon (Schwarzenegger) and Lochlan Ratliff’s (Nivola) incestuous scene. However this time, it’s Day’s Trump Jr. getting intimate in mattress with Kenan Thompson’s Tiger Woods. In actual life, Woods is relationship Trump Jr.’s ex-wife Vanessa Trump.
