Does the Phillie Phanatic have some new competition in the world of sports mascots? And could that competition be coming from the Oval Office?
Saturday Night Live thinks so. During Saturday night’s “Weekend Update” segment on SNL, Colin Jost reported on President Trump’s visit last week to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico. The Trump administration faced criticism for its slow response to the natural disaster, which killed at least 34 people and at one point knocked out power to all of the island after a Sept. 20 landfall. Most of the U.S. territory’s 3.4 million American citizens are still without electricity, many roads are still impassable, and communication in many parts of the island is all but impossible.