This week's "SNL" began with the now-usual Trump-centric cold open, but Alec Baldwin was nowhere to be found. Beck Bennett portrayed Jake Tapper on an episode of his show, "The Lead," with special guest Kellyanne Conway (Kate McKinnon), who introduced a few more cabinet picks to the world.
“Tapper” first went in on Trump’s pick of Scott Pruitt, a climate change denier, to head the EPA — which McKinnon’s Conway spun as Pruitt being “ready to protect us all from the environment” — and then the country’s work force being run by Andrew Puzder a CEO who doesn’t believe in minimum wage. McKinnon's Conway won’t say these picks are bad, but she’s proud to say they’re “alt-good" because when you drain a swamp, the mutated, undying animals are then left to govern what’s left.
The biggest reveal was of the Trump administration’s choice for DEA head – another pick with minimal experience, a bald high school teacher from New Mexico. That's right: "Breaking Bad" character Walter White, played by Bryan Cranston.
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