Alec Baldwin’s Trump Pays Homage to Hope Hicks on SNL: ‘She’s Like a Daughter to Me. So Smart, So Hot.’

“She’s like a daughter to me. So smart, so hot. You know, I hate seeing her go but I love watching her walk away.”

Saturday Night Live’s cold open was one of the best in a long time. “Anderson Cooper” introduced a bipartisan meeting featuring Alec Baldwin as President Donald Trump, during which the president comes up with a solution to end gun violence. “Maybe we should take everyone’s gun away. Nobody is allowed to have a gun, not even whites.”

“Tonight I am here to bring you a message of healing and a show of unity, along with Mike Pence and Senator Dianne Feinstein,” Baldwin as Trump said, opening the meeting. “Last week I met with a group of teenage survivors of gun violence and I want to assure them once again that I hear you, and I care,” he said, reading from the now infamous cheat sheet he was caught using when meeting in the White House with student survivors and families of those killed at Florida’s Parkland shooting.

“Rent Lego Ninja Movie – sorry, Eric scribbled some notes on there,” Baldwin continued.

“It’s clear something has to change. We have to take a hard look at mental health, which I have so much of. I have one of the healthiest mentals. My mentals are so high, we have to respect the law, believe me, no one loves the Second Amendment and due process more than me. But maybe we just take everyone’s guns away. Nobody is allowed to have a gun, not even whites. Did we like that? Dianne loves that,” Baldwin says, referring to Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein. “She hasn’t been this excited since women were allowed to get jobs. Look at Mike, he hates it. I met with the NRA, they gave me 30 million good reasons not to change a thing. So cha-ching – it’s all good.”

“We’re still friends, right? We’re still friends Mike?” Baldwin asks, placing his hand on top of “Mike Pence’s” hand. “He hates this. He’s worried this is a gateway touch,” Baldwin says, mocking the vice president’s homophobia.

“Trump” moved on to discuss the mass exodus from his White House.

On the surprise exit of longtime aide Hope Hicks, who has been with Trump even before he decided to run for president, Baldwin made some interesting facial and tongue gestures, and said of Hicks, “She’s like a daughter to me. So smart, so hot. She resigned.  You know, I hate seeing her go but I love watching her walk away.”

He also mentioned his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, describing him as “basically the hottest chick left in the place.”

Baldwin’s “Trump” turned to the tariffs on steel and aluminum he announced late this past week which caused the markets to take a deep dive.

“Both sides hated it,” he admitted. “I don’t care. I said I was going to run this country like a business. That business is a Waffle House at 2 AM. Crazies everywhere, staff walking out in the middle of their shift, managers taking money out of the cash register to pay off the Russian mob.”

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