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Saturday Night Live: Simu Liu and a returning Trump celebrate Thanksgiving

For the second time this month, Saturday Night Live opens with a new segment of Judge Jeanine Pirro’s Fox News show. The rightwing pundit (Cecile Strong) invites on “fellow judge” Bruce Schroeder (Mikey Day), who defends his disgraceful handling of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, noting that he “did not give my client an unfair advantage in any way”; two NPR hosts, one white and outraged (Chloe Fineman) over the verdict, the other black and unsurprised (Chris Redd); and finally, Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson).

The ex-president goes on two 60-second free associative riffs (the second one taking the form of a word search game), rambling about everything from female Ghostbusters, Gossip Girl’s Serena v Blair feud, Chris Christie

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