Saturday Night Live Cold Open presents a Donald Trump vs. Kamala Harris family feud

Saturday Night Live mocked Donald Trump’s refusal to have another debate, pitting him against Kamala Harris instead Family feud.

Starring Kenan Thompson as host Steve Harvey, the cold open brought back election season regulars: Maya Rudolph as Harris, joined by her “family” Andy Samberg as Doug Emhoff, Jim Gaffigan as Tim Walz and Dana Carvey as Joe Biden. James Austin Johnson was joined by Mikey Day as Don Jr. and Bowen Yang as JD Vance, with a spot missing for Melania Trump.

“It’s so strange. I could have sworn she was standing right next to me about two years ago,” Trump said as Harvey introduced the team players.

As Trump and Harris faced off before the buzzer, the former president told Harvey: “I’m telling you, Steve, she’s going to be very terrible at this game. She is a low IQ person. The whole world laughs at her because she doesn’t respect her like she respects me.”

Harris responded: “The fact is that Donald Trump likes dictators because anyone can manipulate him simply through flattery.”

Trump protested: “That’s simply not true. That is not true.”

Harris tells him, “You look very good.”

Trump is convinced. “I love her. Isn’t she great?”

The first question: “Name something you keep in your glove compartment.”

Harris came in first.

She then began her short speech. “Steve, look, I grew up in a middle-class family. My mother raised my sister and me, okay? She worked hard and saved, and we also have a second mother.”

Harvey replied, “Okay, did this mother have a glove compartment?”

Harris said, “A small business owner named Miss Shelton.”

Harvey became impatient and told her, “Okay, we got that. Something you keep in your glove compartment.”

“Oh, a Glock, Steve, a big old Glock.”

In town halls and interviews, Harris had mentioned that she is a gun owner as her campaign sought to win over centrist voters and push back on Trump’s claim that she wanted to take away people’s guns.

This was the third week in a row SNL has featured Rudolph, Gaffigan, Samberg and Carvey in the cold public eye, with the latter portraying Biden as endlessly confused (he called Harvey “Regis”) and with a helping of Biden-isms. “I’m resting. First: I sleep when I can. Second: I’m going to sleep now.”

Trump, meanwhile, objects to the first question — name something stored in a glove compartment — if it’s his team’s chance to steal.

“Well Steve, I’ve never ridden in the front seat of a car, so this question is very unfair. To answer this, I’m going to make one of my signature weaving patterns, right? It’s called a tapestry, where I’m saying a lot of different things, but it all comes together so beautifully, like an episode of Seinfeld. Seinfeld, you know, Jerry always wore mom jeans. Bad genes, just like the immigrants who are ruining this country. They eat the pets! They eat Moo Deng! It’s so sad. When you look at Korea, you look at Japan, America isn’t even there. There is no space. So it’s like a glove compartment, there’s no space. See what I did there, Steve?”

“I know exactly what you did,” Harvey replied, before concluding what Trump was trying to answer. “Show me, dementia!”