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<p>NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; In tune with the new administration of alternative facts, viewers are embracing a comic alternative president.</p><p>Alec Baldwin, who has scored in guest shots on &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; with his mocking impersonation of Donald Trump since the campaign&#8217;s final weeks, presided Saturday night as guest host of the NBC comedy show, serving up yet another Trump masquerade.</p><p>In his spoof, President Trump made good on a tweeted vow to &#8220;see you in court&#8221; directed at the three Ninth Circuit federal judges who last week refused to lift a stay preventing his immigration ban from being enforced.</p><p>His chosen venue: &#8220;The People&#8217;s Court,&#8221; where he was suing the three judges.</p><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m right, they&#8217;re wrong,&#8221; Trump erupted. &#8220;I want the travel ban reinstated. I also want $725.&#8221;</p><p>Then, as a character witness, he brought in Russian president Vladimir Putin (Beck Bennett), who praised Trump as &#8220;my little American Happy Meal.&#8221;</p><p>In another sketch, Baldwin, making his record 17th &#8220;SNL&#8221; hosting appearance, took social relevance to an outrageous level as an ad man brainstorming a Cheetos commercial for the Super Bowl. In another, he was an obstetrician examining Beyonce, pregnant with twins (played by a chatty Kenan Thompson and surprise guest Tracey Morgan).</p><p>But while Baldwin was the drawing card for viewers seeking political satire, the night belonged to ultra-versatile &#8220;SNL&#8221; cast member Kate McKinnon.</p><p>On &#8220;Weekend Update,&#8221; she depicted Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who last week was silenced by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in the midst of final debate over the confirmation of Jeff Sessions, Trump&#8217;s nominee for attorney general.</p><p>Also in the show, McKinnon was almost unrecognizable as newly sworn-in Sessions himself, played as drawling, cornpone and ghoulish.</p><p>And in yet another sketch, she encored her crowd-pleasing lampoon of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, who this time was a crazed stalker pursuing CNN anchor Jake Tapper (Bennett).</p><p>Opening the show, Melissa McCarthy returned with her portrayal of hot-tempered White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer that wowed viewers on last week&#8217;s show.</p><p>&#8220;I said that wrong when I said it,&#8221; &#8221;Spicer&#8221; seethed when asked about a confusing remark. &#8220;Then you wrote it. Which makes YOU wrong.&#8221;</p><p>Finally, losing all control, she mowed down the press corps on her motorized podium.</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">This Saturday, Feb. 11, 2017, image released by NBC shows host Alec Baldwin as President Donald Trump during the &#8220;Trump People&#8217;s Court&#8221; in New York. In his spoof, President Trump made good on a tweeted vow to &#8220;see you in court&#8221; directed at the three Ninth Circuit federal judges who refused to lift a stay preventing his immigration ban from being enforced. His chosen venue: &#8220;The People&#8217;s Court,&#8221; where he was suing the three judges. (Will Heath/NBC via AP) </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/web1_AP17043711777163.jpg</photo0><caption0>This Saturday, Feb. 11, 2017, image released by NBC shows host Alec Baldwin as President Donald Trump during the &#8220;Trump People&#8217;s Court&#8221; in New York. In his spoof, President Trump made good on a tweeted vow to &#8220;see you in court&#8221; directed at the three Ninth Circuit federal judges who refused to lift a stay preventing his immigration ban from being enforced. His chosen venue: &#8220;The People&#8217;s Court,&#8221; where he was suing the three judges. (Will Heath/NBC via AP) </caption0><photoCredit0></photoCredit0></div></div>
<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Frazier Moore</p><p>AP Television Writer</p></bylineMeta></div>

Host Alec Baldwin, ‘SNL’ cast skewer Trump White House