Alec Baldwin bid a poignant farewell to Trump on 'Saturday Night Live' finale
Alec Baldwin performed his now infamous Donald Trump impression for perhaps the final time on Saturday Night Live’s season finale, and it was as moving as it was hysterical. Well, depending on how you think this presidency is going to turn out.
Baldwin’s Trump played a soulful piano version of Leonard Cohen’s "Hallelujah," a winking callback to the way Kate McKinnon's Hillary Clinton handled the post-election episode in November.
But unlike Kate's solitary Hillary, Trump was not alone in his sorrow.
Out came Kate McKinnon as Kellyanne Conway, joined soon by Beck Bennett’s Mike Pence. Not to be missed are the Bobbsey Twins, Alex Moffat and Mikey Day as Eric Trump and Donald Jr., looking simultaneously douchey and bewildered, as always.
Add a polished Cecily Strong as Melania and a surprise guest stop-by Scarlett Johansson, who debuted her Ivanka impression during her host turn in April, and you’ve got a Donald who needs to prove to us that his hands are where they should be.
But lest we mistake Baldwin’s farewell as a precursor to the real thing, “Trump” has a message for us:
“I’m not giving up, because I didn’t do anything wrong,” Baldwin said. “But I can’t speak for these people!”
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Josh Dickey is Mashable's Entertainment Editor, leading Mashable's TV, music, gaming and sports reporters as well as writing movie features and reviews.Josh has been the Film Editor at Variety, Entertainment Editor at The Associated Press and Managing Editor at TheWrap.com.A finalist for the Los Angeles Press Club's Best Entertainment Feature in 2015 for "Everyone is Altered: The Secret Hollywood Procedure that Fooled Us for Years," Josh received his BA in Journalism from The University of Minnesota.In between screenings, he can be found skating longboards, shredding guitar and wandering the streets of his beloved downtown Los Angeles.
