Kamala Harris poked fun at Donald Trump‘s garbage truck struggles as she made a surprise appearance on Saturday Night Live just days before America goes to the polls.
The vice president, who has been played on the 50th season of the comedy show by Maya Rudolph, flew to New York City on Saturday evening after a campaign event in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Harris made the unscheduled stop while on her way to Detroit, Michigan, with Air Force Two landing at LaGuardia Airport in Queens. It was the final episode of the show before Election Day on Tuesday.
She appeared opposite Rudolph after the actress looked into a mirror and said she wished she could “talk to someone who has been in my shoes.”
The camera then panned to the reflection in the mirror, where the beaming vice president sat, who received a huge cheer from the studio audience.
“You and me both sister,” Harris told Rudolph.
“It is nice to see you Kamala,” Harris said. “I am just here to remind you that you have got this. You can do something your opponent cannot do like open doors.”
The joke came just days after a viral video of Trump struggling to climb into the door of a garbage truck in Wisconsin while wearing an orange fluorescent safety vest.
Harris then asked Rudolph if she really laughed like the actress portrayed on the show.
“Eeeeeh, a little bit,” Rudolph told her before saying that she was “going to vote for us.”
“Any chance you are registered in Pennsylvania?” Harris replied of the swing state that will play a pivotal role in deciding who takes the White House.
In response to the sketch, the Trump campaign told News Nation in a statement that Harris was “living out her warped fantasy cosplaying with her elitist friends.”
In October, the show’s creator Lorne Michaels told The Hollywood Reporter that SNL had not approached any candidate and had no plans to do so.
“You can’t bring the actual people who are running on because of election laws and the equal time provisions,” Michaels said of the FCC’s rules on equal time for candidates.
