VIDEO: Alec Baldwin's Trump Declares 'Fake' Emergency on SNL
By: Stephi Wild Feb. 17, 2019
During last night's SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE cold open, the show tackled Trump's declaration of a national emergency to get funding for the border wall.
In the sketch, President Donald Trump (Alec Baldwin) takes questions at press conference.
"You all see why I gotta fake this emergency, right?" Baldwin's Trump declared. "I have to because I want to. It's really simple. We have a problem."
Watch the sketch below!
Saturday Night Live (SNL) is an late-night live television variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title NBC's Saturday Night. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members.
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