‘Saturday Night Live’ Cold Open Pits Donald Trump Against Kamala Harris In A Game Of ‘Family Feud’
Saturday Night Live mocked Donald Trump’s refusal to do another debate and instead had him face off with Kamala Harris in Family Feud.
With Kenan Thompson as emcee Steve Harvey, the cold open brought back the election-season regulars: Maya Rudolph as Harris, joined by her “family” of Andy Samberg as Doug Emhoff, Jim Gaffigan as Tim Walz and Dana Carvey as Joe Biden. James Austin Johnson was joined by Mikey Day as Don Jr. and Bowen Yang as JD Vance, with one spot missing for Melania Trump.
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“It’s so strange. I could have sworn she was standing right beside me about two years ago,” Trump said, as Harvey introduced the team players.
As Trump and Harris faced off before the buzzers, the former president told Harvey, “I’m telling you Steve, she’s going to be very horrible at this game. She’s a low IQ person. The whole world is laughing at her because they don’t respect her like they respected me.”
Harris responded, “The fact is Donald Trump likes dictators, all right, because anyone can manipulate him simply through flattery.”
Trump protested, “That’s simply not true. It’s not true.”
Harris tells him, “You look very handsome.”
Trump is won over. “I love her. Isn’t she great?”
The first question: “Name something that you keep in your glove compartment.”
Harris buzzed in first.
She then went into her stump speech. “Steve, look, I was raised in a middle class family. My mother raised my sister and me, alright? She worked hard and saved up, and we have a second mother too.”
Harvey responded, “Okay, did that mother have a glove compartment.”
Harris said, “A small business owner named Miss Shelton.”
Harvey, getting impatient, told her, “OK, we got that. Something that you keep in your glove compartment.”
“Oh, a glock, Steve, a big old glock.”
In town halls and interviews, Harris had made mention that she is a gun owner, as her campaign has tried to win over centrist voters and push back on Trump’s claim that she wants to take away people’s guns.
This was the third week in a row that SNL has featured Rudolph, Gaffigan, Samberg and Carvey in the cold open, with the latter portraying Biden as endlessly befuddled (He called Harvey “Regis”), and with a dose of Biden-isms. “I’m getting my rest. Number one, I sleep when I can. Number two, I’m going to sleep right now.”
Trump, meanwhile, objects to the first question — name something kept in a glove compartment — when it is his team’s chance to steal.
“Well, Steve, I have never ridden in the front seat of a car, so this question is very unfair. So to answer this, I am going to do one of my signature weaves, right? It’s called a weave where I say a lot of different things, but it all comes together so beautifully, like an episode of Seinfeld. Seinfeld, you know, Jerry was always wearing mom jeans. Bad genes, just like the immigrants who are ruining this country. They’re eating the pets! They’re eating Moo Deng! It’s so sad. When you look at Korea, you look at Japan, America’s not even included. There’s no room. So it’s like a glove compartment, there’s no room. See what I did there Steve?”
“I know exactly what you did,” Harvey responded, before concluding what Trump was trying to answer. “Show me, dementia!”
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