Saturday Night Love comes up with a novel hot take on the thinking behind Amazon's decision to split its new second headquarters between New York City and Northern Virginia.
"With little more than a bald cap and a pair of filled-in eyebrows, SNL guest host Steve Carell transformed into Amazon.com chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos to insist that, no, he was not trying to troll President Trump," writes Amy B Wang.
Yep, Saturday Night Live is riffing on the idea that Amazon's HQ2 drama was a deliberate plot to troll the President of the United States.
FULL STORY: On SNL, a bald Steve Carell plays Jeff Bezos — and won’t stop trolling Trump
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