Donald Trump's response to Alec Baldwin's last SNL performance before inauguration was exactly what you expect

The final Saturday Night Live before Donald Trump’s inauguration was business as usual, with Alec Baldwin pulling precisely none of his punches in his sketch of the President-elect’s infamous news conference last week.

Baldwin opened with a confirmation, in case people were in any doubt:

Yes this is real life: this is really happening. On January 20^th, I, Donald J Trump will become the 45^th president of the United States.

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Stoking the flames of possible impeachment before the President-elect carries a full term, he continues:

And then two months later, Mike Pence will become the 46th.

Trump’s conference provided fruitful inspiration, and Baldwin addressed the President-elect's alleged actions in Russia, outlined by the leaked dossier, with characteristic subtlety.

Asked about the “Big Russian pee pee party”, Balwin-as-Trump responded:

I’m not going to be talking about the pee pee because it didn’t happen and it wasn’t a cool as it sounds.

I’m going to bring back a thick stream of jobs back in this country – the biggest, strongest, steadiest stream you’ve ever seen. This country will be literally showered with jobs. I am a major whizz at jobs. It will be a golden opportunity for me as president to make a big splash.

Baldwin also delivered some gags about the abolition of Obamacare in favour of the Affordable Healthcare Act (the two are one in the same) - a dig at the President-elect’s lack of a clear plan on what would replace the healthcare system.

Trump, who has made no secret of his plans to continue using Twitter as a platform through which he can address critics and the world alike, responded to Baldwin with the following:

Trump's reputation for thin skin continues to go unchallenged.

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