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'I Wish I Had Never Been President': SNL Imagines 'It's A Wonderful Trump'

Celebrity cameos reappear to imagine a world where Trump lost the 2016 election.
From left, Beck Bennett, Miley Cyrus, Mark Ronson, Cecily Strong and host Matt Damon during SNL promos in Studio 8H on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018.

It's Christmas and Kellyanne Conway spots Donald Trump at a party.

"After we lost the campaign, the devil did give me my soul back," Conway (played by Kate McKinnon) says. "Excuse me, I have to go find my husband who I do speak to now."

spoofed the White House in a parody of , featuring Alec Baldwin as a beleaguered President Trump who

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