The sketch was broadcast on the Sky One television channel. It shows Keir Starmer, portrayed by George Fouracres, panicking at Downing Street at the idea of having to speak to Donald Trump on the phone. He turns to a fake David Lammy, his deputy prime minister, asking him, “And if Donald yells at me?”
Donald Trump shared on Sunday on his Truth Social network a sketch from the new British show Saturday Night Live, inspired by the American version, in which Prime Minister Keir Starmer is terrified of having to call the American president.
This sketch was aired on the Sky One television channel as the opening of the first British “SNL” show, an adaptation of the legendary American satirical show. It features Keir Starmer, portrayed by George Fouracres, in panic at Downing Street at the idea of having to speak to Donald Trump on the phone. He turns to a fake David Lammy, his deputy prime minister, asking him, “And if Donald yells at me?”
When the president answers, he hangs up abruptly, wondering why it is “so difficult” to talk to this “frightening” and “wonderful” president. “Be honest and tell him that we can no longer send more ships to the Strait of Hormuz,” David Lammy, played by Hammed Animashaun, responds. “I just want to make him happy, Lammy. You don’t understand him like I do,” then adds the fake Starmer.
The American president simply shared the video on his Truth Social network, without any accompanying comment.
Donald Trump has launched personal attacks against Keir Starmer since the beginning of the war against Iran on February 28, accusing him of not supporting his great American ally strongly enough in his Middle East war. “This is not Winston Churchill we’re dealing with,” he notably said in early March in the Oval Office of the White House, expressing dissatisfaction with London, which had initially refused the United States to use its military bases. “The United Kingdom has been very, very uncooperative,” fumed Trump, who also reiterated in the British press that he was “very disappointed” by Keir Starmer.
