SNL's "The White Potus" Parody Co-Stars Scarlett Johansson and Two Former Cast Members
It was great to see Alex Moffat and Beck Bennett back as Eric Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in the April 12 pretaped sketch.
The buzzy second season of The White Lotus earned a Season 48 parody, and on April 12, Saturday Night Live took on Season 3. In place of the show's chaotic Ratliff family, "The White Potus" sketch followed President Donald Trump's family and their inner circle on vacation at a Thailand resort. The sketch's premise was made all the more fun by bringing back several familiar faces: Scarlett Johansson as Ivanka Trump and former cast members Alex Moffat and Beck Bennett as Eric Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In lieu of the White Lotus Season 3's credits, in which violent illustrated scenarios foreshadow the characters' woes, the "White Potus" credits feature blue donkeys and red elephants tearing each other apart, the founding fathers caught in the elephants' mouths. It opens on a dazed Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson) and Melania Trump (Chloe Fineman, showcasing the Parker Posey impression she was seemingly dying to use a couple episodes ago).
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Scarlett Johansson's Ivanka Trump is the Piper Ratliff in SNL's White Lotus parody
As Donald Trump pops a lorezepam tiny McDonald's burger patty, his sons Donald Jr. (Mikey Day) and Eric Trump (Moffat) make protein shakes in the next room, Lochlan and Saxon-style. "B-T-dubs, where's Ivanka? She's been M.I.A. for Dad's entire presidency," asks Donald Jr.
Ivanka's at a Buddhist temple, listening to the question, "You must ask yourself, 'Am I willing to give up greed and material possessions in order to lead an honest and ethical life?" Upon which she frantically gathers her things and leaves.
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Jon Hamm plays Secretary of Health and Human Services RFK Jr., who's brought a syringe full of measles and asks a woman (Sarah Sherman as the gorgeous Aimee Lou Wood) what she thinks about his real-life plans to eradicate fluoride from American drinking water.
"There's a monkey," she marvels, as he pulls out a knife and storms off to "kill it and eat it."
Lizzo plays White Lotus's Belinda and Beck Bennett is back as Putin
Meanwhile, Musical Guest Lizzo is in Natasha Rothwell's Belinda role as she stares at her computer. "Oh, my God, there's $5 million in my bank account," she exclaims. "It was $20 million last week!"
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U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem (Heidi Gardner), U.S. Attorney General Pam Biondi (Ashley Padilla), and Secretary of State Marco Rubio (Marcello Hernández) are the catty trio of friends, and shirtless Putin (Beck Bennett) is back to provide resort residents comfort. As is Tiger Woods (Kenan Thompson), for some reason.
Watch SNL's "The White Potus" sketch from Season 50, Episode 17 above.
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