Shane Gillis brought his famous impression of former President Donald Trump to the Feb. 24 episode of “Saturday Night Live” in a fake movie trailer that took aim at the president’s new line of expensive speakers.
The fake trailer for “White Men Can Trump” had Gillis’ everyman character get a magical pair of Donald Trump’s new line of gold high-tops — which retail for $399 — and his life became infinitely better. However, instead of making him better at basketball, the sneakers make him an expert at Trump’s unique brand of gaslighting, and he’s suddenly able to… He convinces People make baskets when he doesn’t.
“They gave me the ability to say I’m good at basketball, and then assert it so people start believing it,” Gillis’ character says.
From there, he’s able to convince his boss that he deserves a bigger desk, a scale that weighs much less than he actually does, and a woman that he’s a dynamo in the bedroom.
The sketch also included a cameo from SNL cast member James Austin Johnson as the actor actual Trump and Mickey Day as someone who gets Biden sneakers and gets too old to actually play ball.
The trailer also pokes fun at other sports fantasies, saying: “From Newsmax Studios and the writer of ‘Like Mike’ comes another magical sports movie for white people.”
Gillis is hosting “Saturday Night Live” for the first time since he was fired from the show’s staff shortly after he was hired in 2019. He opened his monologue by briefly referring to the bigoted joke scandal that ended his tenure before it began.