“Saturday Night Live” continued its 52nd season with a long-awaited revival of a fan favorite sketch that President Donald Trump (played by James Austin Johnson) couldn’t help but crash.
To revive his iconic, often misunderstood David S. Pumpkins character, actor Tom Hanks returned, along with former cast member Bobby Moynihan, for the third iteration of the bizarre sketch in the show’s cold open.
Hanks first appeared as David Pumpkins, dressed in an orange and black pumpkin suit, in 2016, shortly before Trump was elected to his first term.
“It’s me, Donald Trump. You’re one true god. Pausing SNL skit yet again. Are you sad you don’t get to see your third David Pumpkin scene? I’ll save you four minutes. He keeps popping up and confusing the people on the ride,” Trump said in the sketch.
Trump then said he and “Mr. Pumpkins” actually have a lot in common.
“We both appeared in 2016. We’re both very loud, very orange, and very frankly annoying,” Trump said in the sketch.
Alluding to the numerous recent comments Trump (in real life) has made about men’s bodies, the president in the sketch admired Hanks’ rear end.
“But we love Tom Hanks. Look at him back there. Good acting, great ass. It’s a great ass, on Hanks. That’s something I’ve been doing lately. Admiring men’s asses,” Trump said in the sketch. “Not that there’s anything wrong with that? Just that I might be gay. They’re calling it gay dementia.”
The sketch also lampooned the suggestion that rapper Nicki Minaj could be the next White House press secretary, as well as the odd noises Trump has uttered during his many midterm rally speeches.
Former White House press secretary Katie Zacharia (played by Veronika Slowikowska) also made a brief appearance, only for her to be ushered off by Trump when she failed to read the cold open’s closing lines.
Watch more of the “SNL” cold open below: