Trump Visits Jim Jordan on SNL – “Is this the loser’s office?”

October 22, 2023

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If you are a liberal, and a politically like-minded acquaintance were to return from a week long camping trip on a remote mountain to with no internet or phone service and asked you where they might find a quick five minute debrief on the news happenings of the week, one could do worse than recommending that they watch the cold opening of Saturday Night Live.

This week’s skit features a despondent Jim Jordan (played by Mikey Day) reflecting on his soul crushing losses this week as he tried and failed to win the House Speakership and… angrily breaking phones.

Congressliar George Santos stops by and to commiserate with Gym briefly and Lauren Boebert calls (as she is being felt up) from a screening of “Aladdin” to add to the hilarity, but the skit really hits it’s stride when someone who has his own fair share of experience with losing, Dotard Trump, shows up with a not so kind word and a handful of salt to rub into Jordan’s raw wound:

AlterNet

“Saturday Night Live jumped back into politics this week, landing with both feet on Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) — played by Mikey Day — with Donald Trump ridiculing him over his failed bid to become House Speaker.

James Austin Johnson’s Trump popped into Jordan’s office where the Ohio Republican sat fuming over his embarrassing public defeat, complaining, “All I want to do is get Congress back to work so I can shut it down again.”

Moments later Austin Johnson’s Trump shows up, entering with, “Yoo hoo—is this the loser’s office?” before rattling off reasons he felt Jordan went down to defeat.”

Mikey Day’s Jordan objects to Trump’s analysis of the his loss, which includes the fact that never wearing a jacket makes him look like “a night manager at a two-star steakhouse”, and rebuts that he did everything that Trump himself would do – including bullying and threatening the holdouts who voted against him.

Trump replies, in typical Trumpian fashion: