Chuck Todd… Kyle Mooney
Mitch McConnell… Beck Bennett
Susan Collins… Cecily Strong
Lindsay Graham… Kate McKinnon
[Starts with Meet the Press intro]
[Cut to Chuck Todd in his set]
Chuck Todd: Hello, I’m Chuck Todd, and welcome to Meet the Press. [Cheers and applause] I hope you like my bangs. Something new I’m trying for the summer. With me today is the senate majority leader Mitch McConnell.
[Cut to Mitch McConnell]
Mitch McConnell: Overjoyed to be here.
[Cut to Chuck]
Chuck Todd: Senator from Maine Susan Collins.
[Cut to Susan Collins]
Susan Collins: I’m here, and I have a lot to say. Unless someone else wants to speak.
[Cut to Chuck]
Chuck Todd: And Senate Judiciary Chariman and the GOP’s latest badboy, Lindsey Graham.
[Cut to Lindsey Graham]
Lindsay Graham: I’m sorry, kids out there. But it is an f-ing honor, Chuck.
[Cut to everybody]
Chuck Todd: Okay. This week President Trump has escalated his trade war with China. It’s estimated that this will coast the country $1.4 trillion in market value. Now, you all have opposed tariffs in the past. Do you all support the president’s Tariffs now some.
[Cut to Mitch]
Mitch McConnell: Well, Chuck, there’s a simple answer to that. There was no collusion.
[Cut to Chuck]
Chuck Todd: Okay, but I’m asking you about China.
[Cut to Mitch]
Mitch McConnell: Yeah-huh. Mm-hmm.
[Cut to Chuck]
Chuck Todd: Let’s try Lindsey Graham. After opposing Tariffs for decades, why do you suddenly support them from president Trump?
[Cut to Lindsey]
Lindsay Graham: Chuck, listen. When you have a president who’s a financial genius and business Jesus like Donald Trump, you’ve just got to trust him. This man has lost 100 times more money than I’ve ever made.
[Cut to Chuck]
Chuck Todd: You’ve done a complete 180 on the president, even after calling him a jackass during the campaign?
[Cut to Lindsey]
Lindsay Graham: Chuck, listen, I am a man of convictions and principles. Unless he can help me. And then it’s new Lindsey, who dis?
[Cut to Chuck]
Chuck Todd: Senator Collins, how does it make you feel to see the president just unilaterally doing what he wants?
[Cut to Susan]
Mitch McConnell: Chuck, I’ll be the first to admit that some of the things this administration is doing makes me want to shake my head vigorously and wag my finger once. Perhaps twice.
[Cut to Chuck]
Chuck Todd: Which brings to us this week’s topic. What would it take for president Trump to lost your support? I’m going to give you guys some hypothetical scenarios and you tell me if any of them would be enough for the president to lose your support.
[Cut to Susan]
Mitch McConnell: Well, you just bring it on, Chuck, because if you think Susan Collins is a pushover, well, then you’ve got another–
[Cut to Chuck]
Chuck Todd: All right, scenario one. Robert Mueller testifies before congress and says he believes Trump committed obstruction of justice. Do you still support him?
[Cut to Mitch]
Mitch McConnell: Well, we need a leader that’s willing to do what he’s got to do to win.
[Cut to Lindsey]
Lindsay Graham: That’s absolutely right. See, the best way to uphold the law is to be above it, Chuck.
[Cut to Chuck]
Chuck Todd: What if he says Trump colluded with the Russians?
[Cut to Susan]
Susan Collins: Well, I’d have to write a strongly worded email and send it straight to my draft folder.
[Cut to Chuck]
Chuck Todd: Next hypothetical. What if the president admits that he’s not as religious as he claims?
[Cut to Mitch]
Mitch McConnell: Ha-ha. Well, if you don’t already know that, that’s kind of on you, Chuck.
[Cut to Chuck]
Chuck Todd: He’s not even Christian. He’s Jewish.
[Cut to Susan]
Susan Collins: Even better, that’s great for Isreal.
[Cut to Mitch]
Mitch McConnell: You know, I can think of another great man who was Jewish. Jesus Christ–
[Cut to everybody]
Susan Collins: [Interrupting] Sammy Davis Jr. What if you found out president Trump was a Muslim?
[Cut to Mitch]
Mitch McConnell: A Muslim? Oh, just the thought of that makes me want to stress eat. [Takes a vegetable leaf out and takes a bite of it]
[Cut to Lindsey]
Lindsay Graham: Okay. You listen, you wait just a minute, Chuck. What kind of Muslim are we talking about? Are we talking about like Dr. OZ?
[Cut to Chuck and Lindsey]
Chuck Todd: I mean like Louis Farrakhan.
Lindsay Graham: But, do we still get those tax cuts?
Chuck Todd: You do.
[Cut to Lindsey]
Lindsay Graham: Okay. Well, then I guess it’s Salam Aleikhem brother president.
[Cut to Chuck]
Chuck Todd: Okay, next scenario. What if Donald Trump divorced his wife Melania?
[Cut to Susan]
Susan Collins: Love can be a tricky thing.
[Cut to Chuck]
Chuck Todd: And he leaves her for Stormy Daniels.
[Cut to Lindsey]
Lindsay Graham: Well, that would actually make more sense because that’s a hot girl.
[Cut to Chuck]
Chuck Todd: How about Kathy Griffin?
[Cut to Mitch]
Mitch McConnell: A Kooky redhead? I get it.
[Cut to Chuck]
Chuck Todd: What if he leaves her for Alexandria Ocasio Cortez?
[Cut to everybody]
Mitch McConnell: Oh, no.
Lindsay Graham: That fool!
Susan Collins: That’s – No.
Chuck Todd: And he also pledges to love, honor and enact her green new deal.
[Cut to Mitch]
Mitch McConnell: Now, that just crosses the line. There are some things you can’t forget.
[Cut to Chuck]
Chuck Todd: So he would lose your support?
[Cut to Mitch]
Mitch McConnell: He would not.
[Cut to Susan]
Susan Collins: I would show up to the wedding but not before I mumbled a strong rebuke quietly into my lean cuisine.
Chuck Todd: Okay, what if the president gave you’re your personal cell phone number to thousands of strangers who then harassed you and sent death threats causing you to get rid of your phone?
[Cut to Lindsey]
Lindsay Graham: Well, Chuck, I do have to disqualify myself because back in 2015 the president actually did that to me.
[Cut to Chuck]
Chuck Todd: Yeah, I know. I was just seeing if you remember. Okay. Let’s say Trump open hand slaps you in the face. What would you say then?
[Cut to Lindsey]
Lindsay Graham: Hareder, daddy.
[Cut to Chuck]
Chuck Todd: Senator Collins, you support Roe V. Wade.
[Cut to Susan]
Susan Collins: Yes, I sure do. Yeah. \
[Cut to Chuck]
Chuck Todd: What if the president declared that life begins not at conception but at erection?
[Cut to Susan]
Susan Collins: Oh, please. I have been a vocal champion of women’s rights for over 30 years. That would be the most outrageous, ridiculous thing that I’d ever—I’m definitely voting for it.
[Cut to Chuck]
Chuck Todd: So, there’s absolutely nothing president Trump could do to lose you support?
[Cut to Mitch]
Mitch McConnell: No, no. I wouldn’t say that. Let’s say hypothetically, he got gay married.
[Cut to Lindsey]
Lindsay Graham: Yeah. To the leader of ISIS.
[Cut to Susan]
Susan Collins: And they had matching diapers fashioned out of the original constitution.
[Cut to Mitch]
Mitch McConnell: That may be—who are we kidding? We’ll always be ride or die bitches.
[Cut to everybody]
Chuck Todd: I guess there’s nothing left to say but—Together: Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night.