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Alec Baldwin appeared on this weekend's "
Saturday Night Live."
The actor reprised his impression of President
Donald Trump for the NBC sketch show's cold open, a play on Friday's press conference from the White House Rose Garden, which drew criticism.
Trump, who has long described the situation on the Southwest border as a "crisis" and an "invasion," appeared to suggest his administration had all the time it needed to build the hundreds of miles of border barrier he has demanded for months.
"I could do the wall over a longer period of time. I didn't need to do this," Trump said, shortly before he signed a proclamation declaring the emergency. "But I'd rather do it much faster."
Saturday, Baldwin's commander-in-chief divulged "many nights in the grotto" after taking a question from a Playboy magazine reporter (Mikey Day), had a stand-off with CNN's Jim Acosta, played by Kyle Mooney, and even answered a "girl one" (question).
He gave a memorable introduction to attorney general, William Barr (Beck Bennett).
"Congratulations, this guy's gonna do such a great job," Baldwin in costume said. "But still, he's working for me so I give him three months tops. Dead man walking right there."
"So, I'm gonna sign these papers for emergency, then I'll immediately be sued," Baldwin's Trump said, "and the ruling will not go in my favor, and then end up in the Supreme Court, and then I'll call my buddy Kavanaugh, and I'll say, 'It's time to repay the Donny,' and he'll say, 'New phone, who dis?'"
Ending the open and introducing the show, Baldwin said: "In conclusion, this is a total emergency, a five-alarm blaze, which means I gotta go to Mar-a-Lago, so I can play some golf and live from New York, it's Saturday Night."