--- title: Scarlett Johansson Made Surprise SNL Cameo as Ivanka Trump description: the cold opening featured none other than Scarlett Johansson, who portrayed Ivanka Trump in the "White House Tree Trimming" skit. canonical: https://time.com/5068769/scarlett-johansson-snl-ivanka-trump/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-12-18T15:22:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:47:24.122Z og:title: Scarlett Johansson Made a Surprise SNL Cameo as Ivanka Trump og:description: Donald's "ornament" Ivanka makes an appearance og:url: https://time.com/5068769/scarlett-johansson-snl-ivanka-trump/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf35443ee0228bf4e/6988f5607cdbac81c5d5b4f2/snl-cold-open.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Saturday Night Live - Season 43 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Scarlett Johansson Made a Surprise SNL Cameo as Ivanka Trump twitter:description: Donald's "ornament" Ivanka makes an appearance twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf35443ee0228bf4e/6988f5607cdbac81c5d5b4f2/snl-cold-open.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Scarlett Johansson Makes a Surprise _SNL_ Cameo as Donald's 'Ornament' Ivanka Trump > Sponsored content. 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On last night’s show, the cold opening featured none other than [Scarlett Johansson](http://www.instyle.com/celebrity/scarlett-johansson), who portrayed [Ivanka Trump](http://www.instyle.com/celebrity/alec-baldwin) in the “White House Tree Trimming” skit. The 33-year-old actress is dating Colin Jost, one of _SNL_‘s head writers, so it’s really no surprise that she’s making unscheduled appearances on the show. Lucky us! Last night, Johansson returned to her role as Ivanka Trump as the First Family, led by [Alec Baldwin](http://www.instyle.com/celebrity/alec-baldwin) as President [Donald Trump](http://www.instyle.com/celebrity/donald-trump) and Cecily Strong as First Lady [Melania Trump](http://www.instyle.com/celebrity/melania-trump), trimmed the “Tree of Shame” with the faces of “haters and losers.” After receiving ornaments from several of his staff members, Baldwin asks, “Where’s my next ornament?” to which Johansson replies, “I’m right here father.” Baldwin then asks after his daughter’s husband, Jared Kushner. Johansson tartly replies, “He’s packing a go bag before the FBI arrives.” “I will always remember that one time I heard him talk,” Johansson continued. See the whole opening skit for yourself: Johansson and Jost made their [red carpet debut](http://www.instyle.com/news/scarlett-johansson-boyfriend-colin-jost-red-carpet-debut) as a couple earlier this month, and we’re already loving them together—especially if we get treated to more surprise _SNL_ appearances by the actress! _This_ [_article_](http://www.instyle.com/news/scarlett-johansson-surprise-snl-cameo-ivanka-trump) _originally appeared on_ [_InStyle.com_](http://instyle.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5068769/scarlett-johansson-snl-ivanka-trump/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5068769/scarlett-johansson-snl-ivanka-trump/"},"headline":"Scarlett Johansson Makes a Surprise SNL Cameo as Donald's 'Ornament' Ivanka Trump","datePublished":"2017-12-18T15:22:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:47:24.122Z","description":"the cold opening featured none other than Scarlett Johansson, who portrayed Ivanka Trump in the \"White House Tree Trimming\" skit.","url":"https://time.com/5068769/scarlett-johansson-snl-ivanka-trump/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf35443ee0228bf4e/6988f5607cdbac81c5d5b4f2/snl-cold-open.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Camryn Rabideau / InStyle"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf35443ee0228bf4e/6988f5607cdbac81c5d5b4f2/snl-cold-open.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Saturday Night Live - Season 43","caption":"Saturday Night Live - Season 43","creditText":"Will Heath—NBCU/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5068769/scarlett-johansson-snl-ivanka-trump/","name":"Scarlett Johansson Makes a Surprise SNL Cameo as Donald's 'Ornament' Ivanka Trump"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"5 Stars You Didn't Know Were on SNL","description":"5 Stars You Didn't Know Were on SNL","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/2Ddng8GG/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2017-09-25T14:48:20.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/2Ddng8GG.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/5068769/scarlett-johansson-snl-ivanka-trump/","duration":"PT1M38S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/5068769/scarlett-johansson-snl-ivanka-trump/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```