"Saturday Night Live" took aim at Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in its cold opening.
Alec Baldwin was back in his now-regular role as the president-elect, while John Goodman made a surprise visit as Rex Tillerson, the ExxonMobile executive who is Trump's pick for Secretary of State. The sketch also referenced other Trump-related headlines from the past week, from the transition team's struggle to line up big-name talent for the inauguration to his feud with Vanity Fair magazine to the appointment of former Texas governor Rick Perry as Secretary of Energy.
The sketch opened with Trump and Kellyanne Conway (played by Kate McKinnon) inside Trump Tower, discussing his "thank you" tour as Conway tries to impress upon Trump his duties as commander in chief.
"Can't I just do it three days a week like Howard Stern does," Trump asks.
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