Santa Clause's North Pole will be cleared out and "the mythical people will suffocate," Kate McKinnon as a terrible 16-year-old atmosphere extremist Greta Thunberg cautions, before giving a test to President Trump.
"Step to me and I’ll come at you like a plastic straw comes to a turtle,” she says at the end of “Saturday Night Live's” cold open this weekend.
The sketch opens with Aidy Bryant, dressed as Sam the Snowman from the "Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer" animation, saying Americans appear to be more partitioned than any time in recent memory this Christmas season - with Democrats recording articles of reprimand against Trump and a presidential political decision coming in the new year.
“But if we listen in to some dinner conversations tonight, I bet we’d find out we have more in common than we realize," the snowman says. "And now we can listen because I hacked into three Nest home cams.”
The sketch at that point hops to and fro among three families – a multiracial liberal family in San Francisco, a white moderate family in Charleston, S.C., and a dark family in Atlanta - one that foregoes talking governmental issues during supper.
Kenan Thompson, playing the dad in Atlanta, likes to skip subjects like arraignment for "Terrible Boys III," the new motion picture featuring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence.
“Could we please talk about politics instead?” his son asks.
“You mean how Trump is definitely getting impeached and then definitely getting re-elected?" the dad responds. "I’m good.”
The child later tells his father that individuals have been stating Trump won't get a subsequent term.
“What people? White people?" Thompson answers. "If white people tell you I might not vote for Trump this time, you know what that’s called, right? A lie. Nobody was gonna vote for Trump in 2016 either and then guess who did? Everybody. See, now you got me worked up. I need a drink.”
Sam the Snowman returns, saying that despite the fact that the three families appear to be changed, they make them thing in like manner: "They live in states where their votes don't make a difference, since none of them live in the three expresses that will choose our political decision.
“They’ll debate the issues all year long," she adds, "but then it all comes down to 1,000 people in Wisconsin who won’t even think about the election ’til the morning of.
"And that’s the magic of the electoral college."
McKinnon's Thunberg then interrupts to deliver her “Christmas message."
“In 10 years, this snowman won’t exist," she says bluntly. "Her home will be a puddle. Santa, reindeer, the North Pole -- all of it gone. The ice caps will melt and the elves will drown."
"Greta!" the shocked snowman interjects.
“What? You said keep it light,” McKinnon's Thunberg responds. “So Merry Last Christmas to all.”
“And, Donald Trump – step to me and I’ll come at you like a plastic straw comes to a turtle,” she says, adding, “I can’t believe I’m saying this to a 70-year-old man but grow up!”
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On 'SNL,' Greta Thunberg calls out Trump, warns of Christmas climate calamity: 'The elves will drown'
