Saturday Night Live

Inevitably, there are political divisions within my family, so I really like "Mom Confessions" from "Saturday Night Live."

A woman in middle age is practicing a big revelation: she wants to let her children know that she has "evolved" in her thinking about Trump. This is immediately fraught. The kids have had to accept, for years, that their mother "drinks and enjoys the Trump Kool-Aid." So--even though Mom's news is "positive"--any mention of Trump helps to unleash the Hounds of Fury.

Mom's disclosures are enjoyably nutty. "I feel like.....some of the things Trump says.....are not true...." "I feel like....he has different gun rules....for different groups of people...." "I'm starting to wonder if drag queens....are actually hilarious..."

This script would be just OK if Ashley Padilla did not contribute "next level" displays of tightly coiled rage. She is especially great when she screams, "I STILL THINK HE IS AN EFFECTIVE BUSINESSMAN!"

Well done.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wQhY5CMMl4

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