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.”

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’re not among his “political enemies.

In the first show since Tuesday’s presidential election, the cast of “Saturday Night Live” sarcastically praised Donald Trump for his victory over Vice President Kamala Harris. The cold open began in a somber tone as Bowen Yang,