CLOSE Alec Baldwin is back on "Saturday Night Live" as President Trump and this time he's upset about a friendly handshake between fellow world leaders. USA TODAY 
 
 President Trump (Alec Baldwin, left) looks askance at a very friendly and complex handshake between shirtless Vladimir Putin (Beck Bennett) and Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (Fred Armisen) on "Saturday Night Live." (Photo: Will Heath, NBC) 
 
 Alec Baldwin's President Trump returned to "Saturday Night Live" to stew in the latest news from Robert Mueller's investigation from a balcony in Argentina, the kind of place Evita Peron used to hang out. 
 
 It was Baldwin's first appearance since his Nov. 2 arrest after a parking dispute, and he alluded to that while remaining in his Trump character: "God, I haven’t been this upset since I flipped out over that parking space." 
 
 "SNL" has wisely cut back on Baldwin's Trump appearances, which often had become little more than mimicking zany real-world events. Saturday's presidential opening was his first visit since Oct. 13. 
 
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 “What’s the matter, Donald? Do you not like Argentina?” #SNLpic.twitter.com/JL4aU2Ih5o — Saturday Night Live - SNL (@nbcsnl) December 2, 2018 
 
 With former Trump crony Michael Cohen's guilty plea this week, the revelation of Trump's pursuit of a Moscow tower deal deep into the 2016 election and Russian president Vladimir Putin's very friendly handshake with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the G20 meeting of world leaders in Argentina, there was plenty of new material to mine. 
 
 The Argentina setting provided a backdrop for the "SNL" Trump players, a collection of series regulars and guest stars who portray members of the president's inner circle. 
 
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 Rudy, where did you come from? #SNLpic.twitter.com/xHS0QKwoL8 — Saturday Night Live - SNL (@nbcsnl) December 2, 2018 
 
 Trump first commiserates with wife Melania (Cecily Strong), as he misinterprets his nightmare of "a forest of blood." "No, that was just my Christmas decorations," his wife explains, referring to her much criticized White House holiday decor. 
 
 Trump then conveys his fears about the Mueller investigation, with Melania laying out the worst-case scenario (at least for him): Her husband would go to jail and have to entrust his fortune to her. 
 
 She appeared to grow increasingly fond of that idea. "I'm going to go think about that worst case while I soak in the bathtub," she says as she departs. 
 
 That wasn't the only musical parody. During the G20-themed cold open, President Trump (Alec Baldwin), third from right, is joined by Michael Cohen (Ben Stiller), left, Rudy Giuliani (Kate McKinnon), Melania Trump (Cecily Strong), Vladimir Putin (Beck Bennett) and Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman (Fred Armisen) sent up the Broadway staple "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina." (Photo: Will Heath, NBC) 
 
 Kate McKinnon once again showed her amazing versatility, depicting Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani as a vampire even creepier than your standard-issue Dracula: "I was hanging upside down under the balcony," she says, closing the appearance, one of the sketch's weaker ones in terms of content, by displaying bat wings. 
 
 Ben Stiller made another appearance as a sheepish Cohen. 
 
 "You were like a son to me," Trump tells Cohen in a phone conversation. "Then, why'd you make me do so much illegal stuff?" Cohen asks. "Because you were like a son to me," Trump responds. 
 
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 “Mr. Trump! I’m not supposed to be talking to you.” #SNLpic.twitter.com/bJcJoL0xAK — Saturday Night Live - SNL (@nbcsnl) December 2, 2018 
 
 Later, shirtless Russian President Vladimir Putin (Beck Bennett) enters the balcony from Trump's presidential suite joined by the Saudi prince (Fred Armisen), with the two joking about the prince's complicity in the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. (The CIA reportedly has concluded that bin Salman ordered the killing. The president has taken a softer stance, mentioning the prince's denials and concluding "maybe he did and maybe he didn’t!") 
 
 Putin and the prince show off their budding bromance, to the president's dismay, and conclude with Beck and Armisen pulling off a pretty complex handshake. 
 
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 A melancholy Trump closes the sketch by going full "Evita" with an adjusted version of "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina." 
 
 "Don't cry for me, Argentina/The truth is/I'm very guilty/Some little no-nos/And maybe treason/But I kept my promise/Oops, no I didn't," he sings. 
 
 The other characters join in, with Stiller's Cohen singing/complaining, "It's just a witchhunt," and the chorus responding, "And we're all witches." 
 
 Read or Share this story: https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2018/12/02/alec-baldwin-president-trump-opens-snl-evita-parody/2181558002/ ||||| Alec Baldwin made his latest appearance as President Trump on “Saturday Night Live” this weekend, portraying Trump in the episode’s cold open, while “Weekend Update” anchors Michael Che and Colin Jost praised the late George H.W. Bush. 
 
 In the cold open, Baldwin’s Trump talks to various figures about Robert Mueller’s investigation and complains that he feels as though the former FBI director is coming after him. The skit was set in Argentina, where Trump and other world leaders had gathered for the G-20 summit. 
 
 Among those appearing to talk with Baldwin’s Trump was actor Ben Stiller, reprising his role as Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen, who pleaded guilty this week to lying to Congress. 
 
 Watch: ‘Saturday Night Live’ cold open 
 
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 Rudy Giuliani (played by Kate McKinnon), Vladimir Putin (Beck Bennett), and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (Fred Armisen) all tried to console Baldwin, who complained that he was “all alone again.” 
 
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 Baldwin’s portrayal of Trump is his first in more than a month. He was arrested on assault charges Nov. 2 after a dispute over a parking space in New York City. He made fun of his arrest during Saturday’s skit. 
 
 The skit concluded with the characters singing alternate lyrics to “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina,” from the 1976 musical “Evita.” 
 
 You can watch the entire cold open above. 
 
 Meanwhile, on “Weekend Update,” hosts Che and Jost lauded former president Bush for being able to laugh at himself and played a highlight video of former SNL cast member Dana Carvey portraying the president on the show. Among the clips was a split-screen interaction between Carvey and Bush during an SNL episode in 1994. 
 
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 Bush and Carvey got along well after years of the comedian portraying the political giant, so much so that Bush invited Carvey to perform his presidential impersonation at the 1992 White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Bush passed away Friday at 94. 
 
 Peter Bailey-Wells can be reached at peter.bailey-wells@globe.com . Follow him on Twitter @pbaileywells
– Alec Baldwin returned to Saturday Night Live as President Trump for the first time since his arrest Nov. 2, but included himself in the receiving end of the ribbing, reports USA Today. In character as Trump on an Argentine balcony, Baldwin lamented Robert Mueller's investigation, saying, "God, I haven’t been this upset since I flipped out over that parking space." The sketch romped through a series of visits from Cecily Strong as Melania Trump, Ben Stiller as Michael Cohen, Kate McKinnon as Rudy Giuliani, Beck Bennett as Vladimir Putin, and Fred Armisen as Mohammed bin Salman, and ended with a riff on Evita, with Baldwin singing, "Don't cry for me, Argentina/The truth is/I'm very guilty/Some little no-nos/And maybe treason/But I kept my promise/Oops, no I didn't." Meanwhile, Weekend Update paid tribute to former President George HW Bush, notes the Boston Globe, who was long portrayed on the show by Dana Carvey and invited the comedian to do his impersonation at the 1992 White House Correspondents' Dinner. Claire Foy guest-hosted the episode.