Che, meanwhile, made a number of jokes at Trump's expense, including jabs at, well, the former president seemingly miming a certain act on a microphone at a rally. We'll not write it all out, but let's just note the phrase "suck his way to freedom" was used.

The cast then had a sarcastic message directly for the former president. “And that is why we at SNL would like to say to Donald Trump: we’ve been with you all along,” Thompson says before Yang adds, “We have never wavered in our support of you, even when others doubted you.”

The cast of “Saturday Night Live” addressed the cold open to President-elect Donald Trump, jokingly declaring that they have always stood with him, now that he’s been elected to a second term.

Cast members hoped they could avoid ending up on Trump's "list of enemies" by lavishing him in praise during the show's first post-election episode.

The “Saturday Night Live” cast sarcastically tells Donald Trump they never wavered in their support of him and begs not to be put on his enemies list.

The first “Saturday Night Live” since Donald Trump’s election victory began with the most somber of tones as a group of plainly dressed cast members, primarily women and minorities, described their new reality.