This week’s episode of “Saturday Night Live” opened with a soliloquy from President Donald Trump, using the occasion of a pharmaceutical company representative fainting in the Oval Office to give James Austin Johnson‘s Trump a minute to speak his mind.
In the real world, Trump froze as others attended to the downed man. The press were quickly ushered out when the real-life rep of Eli Lilly fainted, but not before capturing surreal photos of Trump standing stock-still and a much-mocked clip of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., fleeing the scene.
As the sketch show’s version of the exec faltered, the camera turned to Trump and allowed him to address the audience directly.
“I think I’m playing this very normal. Just stand there and stare like a sociopath. Didn’t even pretend like I

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