'SNL' host Lin-Manuel Miranda taunts Trump: 'Never gonna be president'
Not to step on the joke too much here, but what Lin-Manuel Miranda is saying is that Donald Trump threw away his shot.
After a Saturday Night Live opener ripped from the Saturday morning headlines -- Alec Baldwin as Trump clumsily "apple-agized" for his hot-mic "locker-room talk" while Kate McKinnon's Hillary Clinton chugged champagne in celebration -- the Hamilton creator took his rightful place on the SNL stage.
"It takes me seven years to write a show, so I don't know when I'm going to be back here again," Miranda joked, implying that yes, this was his own ... shot.
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Cue Miranda dashing through the audience, unfurling a lyrically updated version of "My Shot" from his hit show Hamilton, even stopping at a framed portrait of Trump in the hallway.
"Well, you'll never be president, you'll never be president," he taunted with a little dance, and was on his merry way.
Earlier in the opener, Baldwin-Trump spoke with CNN about his lewd comments from 2005 -- the one gaffe that finally looks like it might get to him.
"I was just trying to look cool. I was trying to impress the Billy Bush," Baldwin-Trump said, one of a flurry of excuses. "This was way back in 2005 ... when I was a young, childish 59-year-old man."
Of course, once his bizarre and baffled interview was over and the camera panned away, Trump was at it again.
"I wish I was that hurricane," he said. "Tearing through all that hot Miami (inaudible). I would just destroy it."
Shots thrown.
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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.
