Trump’s $399 gold sneakers skewered in SNL skit ‘White Men Can’t Jump’

Saturday Night Live returned last week after a short break, arriving just in time to ridicule Donald Trump’s new line of gold “Never Surrender” sneakers, giving the high tops a starring role in a skit dedicated to the former president’s $399 kicks.

In a parody sketch of the movie White Men Can’t Jump, the episode’s SNL host Shane Gillis played 30-year-old Gordon Dwyer, a loser who has no luck in love, at work or on the basketball court.

When all hope seems lost, Gillis bangs on a locker and out falls a large box with a note saying, “Gordon – thought you could use these,” signed by “Donald J. Trump.”

The aptly named skit named ‘White Men Can Trump’ continues, showing that while Gillis’ character is wearing the bold gold sneakers, he believes that “winning is a state of mind”.

While he is still terrible at basketball, he convinces his fellow players into thinking that the basket he just missed, actually went in.

“They gave me the power to say I’m good at basketball, then double down on that until people actually start to believe it,” Gillis’ character says during the skit, mocking Mr Trump and the numerous false claims he has made throughout the years.

Gillis’ character goes on to make people believe he deserves things such as a better office at work, or that the woman he is in bed with, all the while wearing the golden sneakers, just experienced the “most fantastic love-making you’ve ever had”.

The real Mr Trump holding his new ‘super limited’ sneakers

He even had the ability to tell the weight scales that it was lying, making the pounds on the screen drop before his eyes.

Turning into a fully-fledged Mr Trump lookalike by the end of the skit, Gillis’ character is met by Mr Trump, played James Austin Johnson