Saturday Night Live cast member Colin Jost jokingly urged former President Donald Trump to testify at his second impeachment trial next week on "Weekend Update".
"Former social media influencer Donald Trump will not testify at his impeachment trial next week, and I think I speak for all of us when I say, 'Come on, please?,'" the co-anchor said.
"Give us one last show, man," he continued. "Stop feeling sorry for yourself, put in your extensions, and burst into that trial like it's Maury Povich and you are not the father.
"Come on, think about it, you can yell out all of the tweets you haven't been allowed to post in the past month. You know, like, 'Worst inauguration ever.' 'Poem barely rhymed!' Or, 'No noms for Tim Allen? #GlobesTooBlack.'
"Sadly, Trump is not going to be doing that," Jost concluded. "But he will be defended at the trial by the lawyers who refused to prosecute Bill Cosby and who agreed to represent Jeffrey Epstein before this death. Which raises the question: What does Trump think he's being impeached for?"
House Democrats asked the former president to testify under oath for his Senate impeachment trial last week, in a move that challenged Trump to respond to the charge that he incited a violent mob to storm the Capitol last month on 6 January. In a response, a Trump advisor said Trump would not testify.
Trump’s lawyers, meanwhile, dismissed the request as a “public relations stunt". The Senate impeachment trial begins next Tuesday (9 February).
