SNL's celeb-filled cold opens have become tired and "cringeworthy pieces of self-satisfied liberal propaganda"

I would tend to disagree. I thought it was funny. Kate McKinnon doing Rudy Giuliani was so right on. I think Ben Stiller as Michael Cohen is good casting too. They were all pretty well done and skit seemed to go over well. The whole episode was funny. The shorts were hilarious. Glover is super talented.

There was a time when SNL was more than a one gag show. A good Trump joke (or not just on Trump, but on anyone) is funny. You can run anything into the ground, though.

Uh, not really. And just because you cite a couple of blog-whores from some two-bit websites doesn't make it so, either.

Now I'm not defending the openings as being great comedy or anything (although I do think the most recent one--the Sopranos finale--was one of the better recent ones), but for a show that HAS become predictable in every other segment, at least the political openings usually hit their target. And with a buffoon like Trump running the country, it's pretty easy to at least get some laughs to start the show...it's just unfortunate SNL can't seem to succeed at comedy with most of the rest of its "original" sketches.

Not really sure what they would expect from SNL regarding Trump's presidency. In the 90s when the Monica Lewinsky scandal was dominating the news, SNL was merciless on Bill Clinton because that's what all the talk was about. Today the FBI investigations and unprecedented personnel turnover dominate the news so naturally SNL is going to go at it hard.. I think SNL's biggest problem is that it's hard to parody an administration like the Trump one because the reality seems more bizarre than anything satire can offer.