The <em>SNL</em> Finale Was a Mishmash of Everything the Show Needs to Fix

opened the last episode of its 44th season with a sketch featuring Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump, sitting in the Oval Office, telling a few jokes, and then singing a song with a coterie of characters from his administration. That might sound like par for the course for the show, but it was actually Baldwin’s first appearance in character since , when mocked the president’s reaction to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report. Almost