The exodus of beloved \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d cast members continues with Cecily Strong joining the alumni ranks, bidding farewell to the show in Saturday’s episode and joining the recent departures of Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant and Pete Davidson, among others.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Strong, who joined the show in 2012, was a regular in political sketches and did an array of impressions, <\/b>including of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D), former first lady Melania Trump and Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
Saturday’s cold-open sketch once again featured James Austin Johnson’s take on Donald Trump, this time touting his digital trading cards. Photoshopped in the same art style as the real trading cards that Trump announced last week, the parody NFTs (\u201cnifties,\u201d as Johnson’s Trump dubbed them) feature scenes with the former president melting President Biden’s ice cream with his laser eyes and with Trump on the cover of a romance novel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cTrump cards are each $99. Seems like a lot. Seems like a scam, and in many ways, it is,\u201d he rambles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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The grift doesn’t stop there. He then welcomes his \u201cthird least-embarrassing child,\u201d Donald Trump Jr. (Mikey Day), and his tonally challenged fiancee, Kimberly Guilfoyle (Strong), to shell their Christmas CD, \u201cNow That’s What No One Calls Music.\u201d Guilfoyle belts (squawks?) that those who listen will \u201csleep in heavenly peace,\u201d before being shooed offstage by Trump.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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