‘SNL’ spoofs Trump and Mamdani bromance, skewers Natalie Harp

The NBC sketch show returned on Sept. 26 with the premiere of Season 52, hosted by New York Knicks star Jalen Brunson and with musical guest Katseye. The cold open, set during the nor'easter that slammed the East Coast this weekend, tackled the surprisingly cordial relationship between President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who met this week in New York.

Ramy Youssef returned to play Mamdani opposite James Austin Johnson's Trump.

"For some reason that no one can figure out, I really, really like you," Trump told Mamdani in the sketch, calling himself the mayor's "best friend."

After Johnson's Trump suggested their chumminess could be because of their shared connection to Queens, the mayor observed that it's "funny to think I could have grown up in one of your apartment buildings in Queens," to which Trump shot back, "Not with that last name."

Mamdani was depicted in the sketch as increasingly eager to get Trump out of his hair, but to no avail, and Trump described their relationship as being like "one of those unlikely animal friendships, like when a tiger gets together with a baby goat."

The rest of the sketch acknowledged a number of…

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