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‘SNL’ Weekend Update Roasts Trump Waving at Migrants, McConnell Stepping Down

The Republican senator "first got involved in politics back in 1968 when he lost a fiddle contest to the Devil," Michael Che joked.

Saturday Night Live ‘s Weekend Update took aim at Donald Trump ‘s bizarre moment at the southern border this week, as well as Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell announcing he’ll step down as his party’s Senate leader. Co-anchor Colin Jost offered a rational response, given Trump’s Hilter-adjascent rhetoric about migrants “poisoning the blood of our country.” A smiling McConnell–“seen here catching up on news from the Middle East,” as Che joked–“has been leader for almost 20 years, but he first got involved in politics back in 1968 when he lost a fiddle contest to the Devil.”

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