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USA Today: On ‘SNL’ even Putin makes fun of Trump’s inauguration crowds

By USA Today.

Published Jan. 22, 2017 at 9:41 am

US President-elect Donald Trump gives a press conference January 11, 2017 in New York. Donald Trump is holding his first news conference in nearly six months Wednesday, amid explosive allegations over his ties to Russia, a little more than a week before his inauguration. (AFP/ Don Emmert)

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The day after Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States, Saturday Night Live opened not with Alec Baldwin’s lip-pursing impression of Trump, but with a shirtless Beck Bennett as Russian President Vladimir Putin, addressing the American people.

“Relax. I got this. Putin’s going to make everything OK.”