SNL’s Final Insult to Trump: A ‘Macho Man’ Piano Performance
This might have to be fact-checked, but we can say with pretty solid confidence that this is the first time a new episode of Saturday Night Live has aired within 12 hours of the presidential election being called. Oh, and barely two hours after the president-elect’s victory speech wrapped. (And after a football-game delay.)
The episode didn’t, as seemingly everyone on Twitter predicted Saturday, open with Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump sitting down at a piano to sing “Hallelujah,” replicating Kate McKinnon’s elegy after portraying Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign.
Instead, in a bit of a troll to everyone’s cynical predictions, Baldwin’s Trump sat down at the piano to play a slowed-down version of “Macho Man” by the Village People, one of his favorite campaign songs and the subject of much ridicule.