A man fainting in the middle of a real-life meeting in the Oval Office this week was a perfect springboard for the premiere of “Saturday Night Live” this weekend.

“Oh, hello. I didn’t see you there. Someone was dying in my office,” said “SNL’s” resident Donald Trump impersonator James Austin Johnson, as people rushed to help the fallen man behind him at the scene.

“I think I’m playing this very normal, just stand there and stare like a sociopath. I didn’t even pretend like I was going to help like someone dropped something and you did the fake turn.”

Pointing out how Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. practically ran from the scene after the man collapsed, Johnson asked, “And what about RFK? I booked him out of here like someone was trying to give him a vaccine. The brain worm takes the wheel! That Ratatouille-like thing ran him out of the room.”

Trump doesn't care about one man fainting, election failures, and shutdown fiasco
“Saturday Night Live” used President Donald Trump’s reaction to a real-life man fainting at the White House on Thursday as a jumping-off point for this weekend’s cold open.

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Then he came out from behind the Resolute Desk as people continued to tend to the fallen man and said, “Every week, I like to create a big picture that sums up how things are going. Last week, it was the demolition of the East Wing. This week, it’s a medical professional who almost died in my Oval Office at the thought of charging less for medications.”

“Maybe next week a bald eagle will fall dead from the sky and crash right on the White House lawn,” the Trump impersonation smiled. “And by grass, of course, I mean a large outdoor concrete floor.”

Ignoring the historically long government shutdown, the Supreme Court’s skeptical reception to his tariff policy, the Federal Aviation Administration’s decision to reduce thousands of flights amid a shortage of air traffic controllers and the legal back-and-forth over food benefits, the delusionally optimistic presidential impersonator called it an “incredible week,” ignoring Democrats’ list of victories in Tuesday’s elections.

“The Democrats won. The lame media called the election a rebuke of Trump’s policies,” he shrugged. “Jokes about them: They’re Stephen Miller’s politics. I don’t read that stuff. I’m not ready.”

Joking about the optics of the fall,
Joking about the appearance of the fall, “SNL” presidential impersonator James Austin Johnson joked, “Maybe next week a bald eagle will fall dead from the sky and crash right on the White House lawn.”

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Johnson celebrated some other small victories for the White House, noting, “The Supreme Court said we could stop feeding the poor. You can applaud that, SNAP!”

Ever the problem solver, the so-called president addressed overall increases in food prices, which are 3% higher than the same period last year, according to the Consumer Price Index.

“People say, ‘But sir, how am I going to be able to buy Thanksgiving turkey for my family?’” he said. “Well, the good news is that your family won’t be coming because all the planes are gone.”

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Summarizing his strategy, Johnson told everyone: “We call that problems, solving problems. Kill two birds with one bird, now you have a bunch of crazy birds.”

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