{"id":902145,"date":"2026-11-01T13:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T13:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/902145\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T13:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T13:08:10","slug":"david-s-pumpkins-returns-for-snl-cold-open-on-trump-nicki-minaj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/902145\/","title":{"rendered":"David S. Pumpkins Returns for ‘SNL’ Cold Open on Trump, Nicki Minaj"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTom Hanks returned to \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d<\/a> on Halloween night to revive his lounge-y David S. Pumpkins character in a cold open that skewered President Trump\u2019s increasingly bizarre comments on the stump and his fixation with men\u2019s physiques.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe segment also featured Saidah Belo-Osagie as Nicki Minaj in a spoof of the star\u2019s vocal support for Trump and his MAGA movement. The bit cast Minaj as Trump\u2019s next choice for press secretary, on the heels of Katie Zacharia\u2019s spectacularly quick flame-out in the job earlier this month.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe segment opened with Grace Reiter and Jeremy Culhane as a young couple taking a ride at a low-end amusement park Halloween celebration. Kenan Thompson then pops up in a ghoulish Grim Reaper costume to guide the couple through a series of scary scenes. Pumpkins, the character that Hanks first limned for the show in 2016, popped in with a dorky dance routine accompanied by Mikey Day and a special cameo appearance by former \u201cSNL\u201d trouper Bobby Moynihan. Day and Moynihan wore full-body skeleton jumpers with white face paint.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tAs the ride continued, James Austin Johnson turned up as President Trump, who stepped in to interrupt the ride and lament about Republicans being poised for a thumping in the Nov. 3 midterm election. The segment then went into a string of surprisingly risqu\u00e9 jokes about Trump\u2019s unusual obsession with the butts of candidates that he has been endorsing as he\u2019s hosted a string of campaign rallies in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe both appeared in 2016. We\u2019re both very loud, very orange and, frankly, very annoying,\u201d Johnson as Trump said. \u201cGood acting, great ass. A great ass on Hanks \u2014 something that I\u2019ve enjoyed lately admiring. Not that there\u2019s anything wrong with that. Just that I might be gay.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTrump then whined that \u201cthe midterms are on Tuesday. The polls say we\u2019re doing very badly \u2014 aww aww. They\u2019re saying Texas is turning purple, just like my hand.\u201d Johnson then raised his hand to show a gigantic bruise. Johnson as Trump called Texas\u2019 GOP candidate for the U.S. Senate, Ken Paxton, \u201can ugly son of a bitch\u201d but urged voters to chose him over Democrat James Talarico. Trump acknowledged that Talarico is \u201cmuch better looking. What a dynamic ass.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs Trump spoke, the other players in the scene were in freeze mode. Thompson\u2019s Grim Reaper character broke from the scene and rushed past Johnson as Trump. Trump called out \u201cthank you for that donation\u201d to which Thompson replied, \u201cYeah, you wish, bitch.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBelo-Osagie barreled into the segment as Minaj toward the end as Trump hails her devotion to the cause. \u201cTrump\u2019s out here killing it \u2014 and by it, I mean my career,\u201d Belo-Osagie as Minaj said. Trump noted that Minaj is well-known for her curvy rear-end: \u201cPerhaps if it was on a man, I could admire it,\u201d Johnson as Trump remarked.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn closing, Trump brought out Zacharia who flubbed her attempt to deliver the signature \u201cSNL\u201d opening line, \u201cLive from New York, it\u2019s Saturday night.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Halloween installment of \u201cSNL\u201d is hosted by \u201cObsession\u201d star Inde Navarrette<\/a>, with Gracie Abrams serving as musical guest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Hanks returned to \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d on Halloween night to revive his lounge-y David S. Pumpkins character…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":902146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,12015],"class_list":["post-902145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-saturday-night-live"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}