Last week, Season 49 kicked off with host Pete Davidson making a heartfelt statement about the tragic events in Israel. saturday night live It’s back to a more standard cold open this week, with a sketch taking aim at – what else – Jim Jordan (Mike Day)’s disastrous (and now abandoned) attempt to fill in for the ousted Kevin McCarthy The vacated seat of Speaker of the House of Representatives.
“What I want to do is get Congress back to work so I can shut it down again,” explained an unhinged Jordan. Fortunately, some of his fellow Republicans have also let him know that they, too, support him in this mission. The first is George Santos (played by Yang Bowen), who accidentally discovers a baby in his arms. When Jordan asked him why he wanted to have the baby, Santos admitted that even he didn’t know (he then asked to take the baby away in an Uber).
Lauren Boebert (Chloe Fineman) next calls to comfort Jordan and assure him, “Things are going as planned. Keep running for Speaker even if you don’t win great. The government shut down and we screwed it all up! ” Boebert’s phone call was short while she was attending a production at the theater Aladdin and other participation.
But Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson) gives Jordan the candid chat he needs. “Yo ho – is this the loser’s office?” the former president asked in greeting. Jordan, for his part, was excited to meet Trump, who was very vocal in his support of Jordan for speaker… until the votes started coming in.
Trump explained his disappearing act because “I prefer Jordan winning, okay? Like the great Michael Jordan. Or the greater Jordin Sparks.”
Trump went on to explain that he actually didn’t like Jordan, and a big part of it was “lack of a jacket,” adding, “You don’t look good. “You look like a two-star steakhouse. The hotel’s night manager. “
Jordan claimed that in order to win votes, he did everything Trump would do: “Intimidation, threats. Why didn’t it work?” Trump said, simple: “You are not me. You are not funny, I am funny.” … You’re Jim Jordan Jr., I’m Donald Trump. “I’m Coke, you’re Shasta. “
Jordan has now officially withdrawn from the race for Republican House Speaker.