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" Two weeks ago, Saturday Night Live returned with only about a month left in this presidential election. With its new season, the show brought on a new Donald Trump played by Alec Baldwin with all the sleaze and unpleasantness required to portray a sleazy and unpleasant man. But before Saturday Night Live ever had a chance to weigh in on some of the major players between seasons, a number of key political impersonations emerged to help define this election. One of these was Laura Benanti, whose uncanny resemblance to Melania Trump is only the beginning of her great impression. After realizing the resemblance earlier this year (when Donald was just a horrible man who still needed to win the Republican primary), Benanti debuted her Melania impression during the RNC this summer. Immediately becoming one of Stephen Colbert&amp;#039;s best moments during his impressive live run that week, Benanti&amp;#039;s Melania is up there with Larry David&amp;#039;s Bernie Sanders and Tina Fey&amp;#039;s Sarah Palin.  But the public doesn&amp;#039;t see much of Melania, which means Benanti doesn&amp;#039;t get to do her impression very often. As numerous sexual assault allegations and a video of Donald admitting to and joking about groping women have emerged, the Republican candidate&amp;#039;s campaign called in Melania to save the day and defend her husband. Live from an undisclosed location with definitely no one in the room coaching her, Benanti&amp;#039;s Melania attempts to defend Donald&amp;#039;s actions. She blames the media, the rigged election, and Billy Bush\u2014all of whom who are far more responsible for the actions of a 70-year-old man. &amp;quot;What about the numerous women who say they were groped by Donald?&amp;quot; Colbert asked.        &amp;quot;Those are all lies Stephen, except when there&amp;#039;s video. Then it&amp;#039;s locker room talk,&amp;quot; Benanti&amp;#039;s Melania responded. It&amp;#039;s a logic that&amp;#039;s as tragic and accurate as Benanti&amp;#039;s impersonation of the woman giving the message\u2014or, more likely, being told what message to give. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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