SNL's Barr, Trump, and Mueller have very different reactions to the Mueller report

Robert De Niro as Robert Mueller.
(Image credit: Screenshot/NBC)

After a two week hiatus, NBC's Saturday Night Live returned to the airwaves on Saturday evening.

The show's cold open, naturally, took on the end of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. Alec Baldwin and Robert De Niro reprised their roles as President Trump and Mueller, respectively, while SNL regulars Aidy Bryant and Kate McKinnon portrayed Attorney General William Barr and Rudy Giuliani.

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.