The cast then had a sarcastic message directly for the former president. “And that is why we at SNL would like to say to Donald Trump: we’ve been with you all along,” Thompson says before Yang adds, “We have never wavered in our support of you, even when others doubted you.”

Saturday Night Live’s first post-election show began with the cast swearing they’ve actually had Trump’s back this whole time—and host Bill Burr totally bombing in a monologue that tried to make light of Kamala Harris’s loss.

Saturday Night Live” borrowed a page from some contemporary politicians by going from being critics of Donald Trump’s to being some of his most ardent supporters.

Several of the cast members of “Saturday Night Live” took to the stage at Studio 8H in New York on Saturday in the first episode after the presidential election, where they jokingly appealed directly to President-elect Donald Trump about how they shouldn’t be among his “political enemies.

In the show’s first cold open since the election of former President Donald Trump for the second time, the cast joined to share a clear message to America’s president for the next four years.