Watch Alec Baldwin’s Trump Return for Mike Pence Hamilton Jokes

ome Saturday Night Live fans were curious if Alec Baldwin had any intention of picking his Donald Trump character after the election. As Baldwin told Vanity Fair earlier this week, “I’m going to do it again this weekend, but not all that often.” The issue? His busy schedule. So let’s savor these moments and relish every Mitt Romney, Mike Pence, and Kellyanne Conway joke we can find. Because who knows what the arrangement will be going forward?

Ripping stories straight from recent headlines, Baldwin’s Trump met with Jason Sudeikis’s Mitt Romney. According to media reports, the real-life meeting between Romney and Trump was productive despite an acrimonious campaign season relationship. In the S.N.L. version, it didn’t exactly pan out that way. The pair stalled out on a frosty handshake.

Then, picking up on the news trending Saturday morning that Mike Pence was booed at a Friday night performance of Hamilton, S.N.L. brought in Beck Bennett’s version of our new V.P. to joke that he got a “free lecture.” But the real juice of this Pence/Trump interaction played into the larger theme of the sketch: Trump’s reluctance to be president and aversion for following through on any of his campaign promises. This version of Trump wants to keep Obamacare, ditch his