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Robert De Niro’s Robert Mueller joins ‘SNL’s’ Eric and Donald Trump Jr. for a bedtime horror
“Saturday Night Live” continued its satirical onslaught against the Trump administration with its cold open on this week’s show, which imagined a horrific bedtime tale for Trump’s sons.
The bumbling duo of Eric and Donald Jr., played by Alex Moffat and Mikey Day, has been a favorite of the show for some time now.
Unlike recent opens that took on hyper-specific news events, this one focused mostly on the broader issue of the ongoing investigation by Robert Mueller III.
It opens in Trump Tower, with Moffat’s Eric in a child’s bed, covered in a planes-trains-and-automobiles sheet and clutching a plush shark. In a clever piece of set design, hanging above him is a portrait of Alec Baldwin’s version of Trump, pursed lips and all.
“Don, I’m scared. I think there’s a boogeyman in the closet,” the normally clueless Eric responds, for once showing a bit of awareness. But the show’s Trump Jr. ignores him.
To prove him wrong, the show’s Trump Jr. opens the door. He doesn’t look in, merely telling Eric that nobody is in the closet.
But Robert De Niro’s Mueller is standing there, out of Trump Jr.’s eyesight, staring at Eric and making the same threatening “I’m watching you” gesture that the actor does in “Meet the Parents.”
After Trump Jr. leaves, De Niro as Mueller confronts Eric.
Eric says, “Mr. Mueller, people say you’re the worst thing to ever happen to my dad.”
“Nooooooo, Eric,” “SNL’s” Mueller responds.
“Getting elected president was the worst thing that ever happened to your dad.”While the sketch was funny enough, it did heavily rely on two features that have been criticized in the Trump era: a reliance on both guest stars and tired bits.
Meanwhile, the sketch relied (again) on Moffat and Day’s sendup of the Trump brothers. They started out as Weekend Update guests, so the move to cold open signals a certain trust in the impressions, though there exists a cynical take that the show is simply out of ideas and needs to recycle its jokes.
— The Washington Post
ATLANTA • Standing from start to finish – and then some in celebrating the city’s first major trophy since 1995 – a championship-record crowd of 73,019 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium watched Atlanta United cap an extraordinary first two seasons in MLS with a 2-0 victory over the Portland Timbers.
Venezuelan Josef Martinez, the league’s leading scorer and MVP, struck late in the first half and assisted on Argentine defender Franco Escobar’s goal early in the second. And 50 years after the Atlanta Chiefs won the first North American Soccer League crown, United basked in the sport’s incredible growth in this gridiron stronghold.
Atlanta is “one of the great stories in the history of our league and, in my opinion, one of the great stories in professional sports,” Commissioner Don Garber said a day earlier. “Their success shows that there really is no limit to what MLS can be.”
The home side embraced the moment, unleashing its league-best attack and corralling a Portland team that had beaten the odds throughout the postseason.
An all-day cold rain seemed like a good omen for weather-tested Portlanders, who, dressed in woodsy green hues, numbered more than 1,300.
This backdrop, though, was a celebration of Atlanta’s embrace of soccer, reward for playing stylish soccer in finishing with the second-most points in the regular season before defeating the front-running New York Red Bulls in the Eastern Conference finals.
Said game MVP Martinez: “I just want to thank everybody — the coaching staff, the players, the fans, the city because I know it’s been a long time since they’ve had a championship and they deserve it.”
— The Washington Post
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