Tom Hanks returned to “Saturday Night Live” on Halloween night to revive his lounge-y David S. Pumpkins character in a cold open that skewered President Trump’s increasingly bizarre comments on the stump and his fixation with men’s physiques.
\n\nThe segment also featured Saidah Belo-Osagie as Nicki Minaj in a spoof of the star’s vocal support for Trump and his MAGA movement. The bit cast Minaj as Trump’s next choice for press secretary, on the heels of Katie Zacharia’s spectacularly quick flame-out in the job earlier this month.
\n\nThe 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 “SNL” trouper Bobby Moynihan. Day and Moynihan wore full-body skeleton jumpers with white face paint.
\n\nAs the ride continued, James Austin Johnson turned up as President Trump, who stepped in to interrupt the ride and lament about Republicans being…
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