Donald Trump Floats Hannibal Lector As Possible VP Pick In Searing 'SNL' Open

“Saturday Night Live” poked fun at the circus surrounding Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick during the cold open of this weekend’s season finale.

James Austin Johnson was in top form as he tacked on his Trump wig to address people outside of the Manhattan courthouse, where the former president’s criminal trial is currently taking place.

“I don’t like being in court because they say very mean things about me as I’m trying to sleep,” he sneered, a nod to reports Trump has been snoozing during proceedings.

After some hemming and hawing about the trial and the upcoming November elections, the presumptive Republican presidential candidate turned his attention to his potential picks for vice president.

“I have invited a few names from my short bus ― I mean short list ― to come to court and do a little dance for me,” he told crowds, tipping his hat to the team of Republican politicians who showed up to support him in court last week.

“They’re supposed to be running the country, but instead they’re sitting in porn court hoping I’ll smile at them,” Johnson’s Trump said, calling the whole affair “really sad.”

The skit featured cameos from Rep. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), played by Devon Walker, and Heidi Gardner as Gov. Kristi Noem (R-S.D.), who appeared holding a “real” gun to a plush dog’s head, a reference to the widely-publicized account of killing her pet puppy, Cricket.

But Trump saved his “favorite choice” for last, introducing a man he truly “can’t stop talking about”: the fictional killer cannibal, Hannibal Lecter.

Wheeled out on a stretcher wearing his signature mask and a straight-jacket, Lector could only offer a diabolical stare while Trump talked him up.

“I keep calling him ‘late and great’ even though he’s not dead,