SNL Video: The Real Nikki Haley Crashes Trump Town Hall; Ayo Edebiri Asks Her About Civil War

Saturday Night Live's version of a CNN Town Hall with Donald Trump featured concerned voters with more star power than usual: GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley and guest host/Emmy-winning The Bear star Ayo Edebiri.

During this week's cold open, Gayle King (played by Punkie Johnson) and Charles Barkley (Kenan Thompson) welcome Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson) to CNN to respond to voters' questions directly.

Diving right into the country's biggest issues, the first audience member asks how Trump will stop Taylor Swift from infiltrating the Super Bowl and stealing the upcoming election. Trump proceeds to explain how the Biden administration is using "Tay-Tay" dating Travis Kelce as some form of PYSOPS (psychological operations) to help POTUS win reelection. What's his evidence to back that up? Swift's own Midnights tracklist.

The former president goes on to make a series of convincing connections between the songs on Swift's latest album and the Left's agenda — which for some reason relates to the Kansas City Chiefs being at the Super Bowl? To start, "Maroon" obviously refers to the colors of the Chiefs; "Anti-Hero" is a nod to Ant-Man, which relates to Paul Rudd, who is from Kansas City; the letters "e" and "r" can be found among 47 other letters that all add up to the "49ers." All of that obviously leads, according to Trump, to "another stolen election (Taylor's Version)."

Halfway through the skit, Trump fields a question from an audience member who turns out to be the actual Nikki Haley, who he mistakenly identifies as Nancy Pelosi. As a "concerned South Carolina voter," that state's former governor asks Trump why he refuses to debate Haley herself. In classic Trump fashion, he dodges the question, instead using his airtime as an opportunity to degrade women. Haley ends her question by smugly asking Trump if he won his home state in the last election, to which he declared: "I won Staten Island!"

A less shocking, but more feel-good cameo? When Ayo Edebiri popped up as an audience member to pose a question not to Trump, but to Haley!

"I was just curious...," Edebiri says, "what would you say was the main cause of the Civil War? And do you think it starts with an 'S' and ends with a '-lavery?'"

Thankfully, Haley concedes, that, yes, yes she does.

Watch the sketch above, then weigh in on the Feb. 3 SNL hosted by Ayo Edebiri featuring musical guest Jennifer Lopez.