The contestant, naturally, is Alec Baldwin's Donald Trump, who is playing to perhaps end the shutdown, if only he can get a good enough deal. Instead of models holding briefcases, the SNL version had members of Congress offer the President possible deals to end the shutdown, now entering its fifth week, which he summarily rejected.
Trump then explained his counteroffer.
"We chose to do this in the only format you understand: a TV game show with women holding briefcases", Kenan Thompson, playing host Steve Harvey, said.
Trump first picked a briefcase held by Nancy Pelosi, as played by Kate McKinnon, which he called "Fancy Nancy Pa-loser".
Trump decides to decline the case since "it's not the five billion I need because it is the first random number I said".
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"Trump and the GOP are just terrified of me because I'm under 100 and I'm good at Instagram", she said.
"Remember, every time you say no deal, a million federal employees go without getting paid", Harvey reminded the president. But Baldwin's Trump quickly corrects him, saying "No, I'm saying a lot of these women are fives".
"A message in Pelosi's case said, "$1 billion, plus you say Nancy's my mommy", while Booker's said, "Cory Booker 2020", King's said, "Whites", and Schumer's said, "Whatever you want", then, "$15, plus a pastrami on rye".
The offer? A crave case from White Castle, which is 30 little hamburger sliders (or, as the show put it in a spoof of Trump's misspelled tweet, "hamberders").
One exchange highlighted the back and forth between Trump and Pelosi this week, where the speaker suggested a postponement of the State of the Union, and the President responded by demanding she fly commercial for an overseas trip. "Well, I guess that makes as much sense as anything else that's going on these days".
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