After scenes of families debating the impeachment inquiry over their holiday dinners, Kate McKinnon hilariously crashed the “Saturday Night Live” cold open as Greta Thunberg.
As Aidy Bryant (dressed as a snowman) was wrapping up the segment with jokes about the dinner-table debates, McKinnon appeared as the Swedish climate-activist teenager, who said she also had a “Christmas message.”
“In 10 years, this snowman won’t exist,” McKinnon warned, gesturing to Bryant’s character. “Santa, reindeer, the North Pole, all of it, gone. The ice caps will melt and the elves will drown.”
She continued, “So, merry maybe our last Christmas to all. And Donald Trump, step to me, and I’ll come at you like a plastic straw comes at a turtle. I can’t believe I”m saying this to a 70-year-old man, but grow up!”
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The skit comes after Thunberg made headlines for being named Time magazine’s “Person of the Year,” which prompted a negative reaction from President Donald Trump.
“So ridiculous,” Trump tweeted. “Greta must work on her Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Greta, Chill!”
Thunberg responded swiftly, changing her Twitter profile to read: “A teenager working on her anger management problem. Currently chilling and watching a good old fashioned movie with a friend.”
The teen has received an outpouring of praise and support since she earned the coveted title from Time.
Former first lady Michelle Obama had words of wisdom to share with Thunberg and took to Twitter to share her support.
“.@GretaThunberg, don’t let anyone dim your light. Like the girls I’ve met in Vietnam and all over the world, you have so much to offer us all. Ignore the doubters and know that millions of people are cheering you on,” Obama tweeted early Friday.
Leonardo DiCaprio posted a video on Instagram of Thunberg and congratulated her on the honor, including Time’s description of why she was selected. Actress Alyssa Milano, meanwhile, bashed Trump for his reaction.
Contributing: David Jackson, Leora Arnowitz
Previously:Melania Trump responds to POTUS attack on Greta Thunberg; she says she communicates ‘differently’
Exposing the Big Game 
🙂 That was a riot!
And, right out of the gate, hunting violations! What did the Botswanan government think would happen? Naivete knows no bounds. The articles say that the killers’ ‘nationalities have not been released’, but I’ll bet they are Americans, especially with the attitudes that collared animals do not matter, no respect for scientific research, and destroying the evidence of the collar. Their names sound American, as does the shallow, disrespectful behavior:
https://www.foxnews.com/world/botswana-elephant-protected-killed-hunter-licenses-canceled
^^Wasn’t sure where to post, but I thought it merited attention. But, at least the Bostwanan government acted quickly and did something about it. And I hope they kept the killers’ big money too. Good! Ugly American behavior, with no respect for the country or the elephants.
They are making them pay for the collar’s replacement, which I don’t think in this country we do, just bill taxpayers.
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/world/botswana-bans-hunters-after-killing-of-research-elephant/ar-AAK9zfB?li=BBSVbAt
It gives me no end of satisfaction to know that Americans behaving badly in other countries do not get the same overly permissive response and or excuses for their bad, entitled behavior. One guy has his hunting license suspended indefinitely. It’s too bad they didn’t get thrown in jail too, and replacing the collar is something I wish could be law in the US. I hope they don’t get to export the elephant either. Too bad, it should be forfeited.