Saturday Night Live: Walton Goggins is a game host with underwhelming material

The White Lotus breakout shows himself to be a strong emcee but he’s not given enough to work with in a middle of the road episode

This week’s Saturday Night Live starts off the same as the last several Mother’s Day episodes have, with members of the cast – Bowen Yang, Marcello Hernández, and Kenan Thompson – standing front and center with their mothers. Mercifully, we’re spared their treacly tribute when Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson) barges on stage and kicks them to the curb, proclaiming, “It’s me again, invading all aspects of your life.”

Trump rambles about Pope Leo (“We hope he does what we want … otherwise I’ll have to send JD back to do his thing”), trade deals (“Question: can a country go out of business? We’re gonna find out”), and his newly appointed US attorney for Washington DC, Fox News personality Jeanine Pirro.

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