‘SNL’ Turns ‘The White Lotus’ Into ‘The White POTUS’ With Surprise Appearances From Scarlett Johansson and Beck Bennett

James Austin Johnson’s Trump takes the place of Timothy Ratliff in the sketch

Scarlett Johansson on "SNL" (NBC)
Scarlett Johansson on "SNL" (NBC)

Season three of “The White Lotus” has come and gone, but “Saturday Night Live” opted to create its own episode of the show this week. Now, the show is “The White POTUS.”

In the sketch, we open on James Austin Johnson’s Trump, filling Jason Isaacs’s role as Timothy Ratliff, and clearly having an existential crisis. As his wife Melania calls out to him — complete with Parker Posey’s viral North Carolina accent — he opts to numb the pain. But, where Timothy Ratliff chose lorazepam, Trump chooses a chicken nugget.

Don’t worry, the rest of the family is there too.

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