James Austin Johnson frequently embodies Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live , which recently aired its season finale. But Johnson couldn’t resist the opportunity to imitate Trump again last night following a New York jury finding the former president guilty on 34 charges. The SNL cast member shared an Instagram video in which he mimics Trump’s reaction, parodying it as a bizarre rant about Bucca di Beppo and the high cost of carbonara.
“When you go to a Bucca di Beppo, there’s so many wonderful things that are on walls and that there are on the table, frankly, if you look at the pope room, there’s a big head of the pope, and you should be able to play with it, I think, like an action figure or something,” Johnson says as Trump while walking through a parking garage. “You know when you go to a collectible store and they have so much behind glass, you can’t look at any of it? The last time I checked, Buca di Beppo was not a collectible store, so we would like to be able to take the framed photographs down from the men’s room at Buca di Beppo.” He eventually gets to the trial, sort of.
“And instead what you have is a very disgraceful judge who has said that you’re not allowed to do that when in fact you should be allowed to do that because they’re fun pictures,” he says. “And the carbonara’s very expensive. And I think carbonara — what is that, like four, five ingredients? Peas, it’s bacon, you know, they give it a different name, Italian nam.