(CNN) — The opening sequence of “Saturday Night Live” showed comedian James Austin Johnson considering possible jail time while playing an indicted former President Donald Trump.
“Well folks, it happened. I was indicted,” Johnson said, later joking about the former president’s rhetoric: “What the radical left Democrats are doing to me is worse than any crime I’ve ever committed, and I’ve committed many.”
In the role of Trump, Johnson joked that he was going to put out an album of 30 classic covers to raise money from his supporters called “Now That’s What I Call My Legal Defense Fund,” a pun on greatest hits music albums.” Now That’s What I Call”.
“Folks, your hard-earned money is important. If I go to jail, I’m going to need money for snacks from the police station,” Johnson said. “I’ll need a supply of ramen to make a good barter with a big man named Lizard.”
He joked that the song “Justice For All,” a real single released in march by a choir of men who are in prison for their part in the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 and which includes a recording of the former president, was one of the most downloaded and surpassed Miley’s “Flowers” Cyrus, “which, as we all know, is about Liam (Hemsworth).”
The segment featured a number of “cameos” by other cast members representing artists and well-known Trump supporters with duets on the fictional album, including Kenan Thompson as boxer Don King, Mikey Day as Donald Trump Jr., and Devon Walker as Afroman.
“I really don’t want to go to jail, but when I think about how broken that could be, it’s terribly tempting,” Johnson joked.
James Austin Johnson en “Saturday Night Live”. (Crédito: NBC)
It is the first time in US history that a president or former president has been criminally charged. The indictment was filed under secrecy and the charges have not yet been made public.
Trump is expected to appear in court Tuesday afternoon for his appearancesources told CNN, and Johnson reminded viewers of the pending event as he closed the sketch saying, “Manhattan, I’ll see you on Tuesday. We’ll be wild.”
