‘Saturday Night Live’ Cold Open Parodies Donald Trump’s 99 Nft Announcement: “Seems Like a Scam, and In Many Ways It Is”
Saturday Night Live kicked off its Dec. 17 edition by parodying Donald Trump’s video announcement earlier this week that he’s selling NFTs, or what he calls “Trump Digital Trading Cards.”
In a video announcement earlier this week, Trump described the NFTs, which sell for 99 and reportedly sold out on the first day, as “pertaining to my life and career.” They portray Trump as an astronaut, cowboy, race car driver and superhero.
Kicking off Saturday’s SNL, Trump, played by James Austin Johnson, began by addressing the news and quoting from the actual video.
“This is Donald Trump, hopefully your favorite president of all time, better than Lincoln, better than Washington,” Johnson as Trump said, a direct quote from the real video, adding “frankly, better than Ezra,” a reference to the alternative rock band whose heyday was in the ’90s.
“You may have seen this week,
