[WATCH] ‘SNL’ Cold Open Sends Up Trump’s Rambling Ohio Visit

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Last week, Donald Trump headed to East Palestine, Ohio, the site of a horrific train derailment that sparked a toxic airborne event. It was a calculated move: In a presser, he rambled about his discontinued spring water line. Later he went to McDonald’s. Seeing as SNL has a top-shelf Trump impersonator in James Austin Johnson, there’s no way they’re not going to kick off their latest show by doing it.

“It’s great to be here in the town of East Palestine, not a great name,” Trump declared of Johnson. “To come here and see these wonderful people that Biden left behind. He was on spring break in Ukraine with his friend Zelensky in a T-shirt, it’s very disrespectful.”

So began a rambling soliloquy, not unlike Trump’s own, with him talking about talking to a farmer who said the event poisoned his land, leaving him with nothing to eat but dirt.

“And I said, ‘Well, what are you doing eating dirt? Don’t eat the dirt,’” he recalled. “‘Don’t eat the dirt. You should be eating the cold McDonald’s I brought you and the bottled water and Trump ice. I’ll be honest, I just put my sticker on some Dasani.”

He even praised the newly contaminated area. “I’ve heard all about your water situation, but I’ve been looking at your river, and it’s brilliant,” he said. “I’ve never seen water so beautiful — beautiful rainbows and discoloration. This is Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty Water makeup.”

And then he put on Rihanna, just like Trump inexplicably did.

You can watch Colkd Open in the video above.

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