--- title: Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Kate McKinnon Blasts Donald Trump on SNL description: Kate McKinnon reprises her Ruth Bader Ginsburg impression for Weekend Update. canonical: https://time.com/4416907/republican-convention-ruth-bader-ginsburg-kate-mckinnon/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-21T14:54:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:34:38.263Z og:title: Kate McKinnon's Ruth Bader Ginsburg Back to Own Donald Trump og:description: She's throwing punches and dancing after every Gins-burn og:url: https://time.com/4416907/republican-convention-ruth-bader-ginsburg-kate-mckinnon/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kate McKinnon's Ruth Bader Ginsburg Back to Own Donald Trump twitter:description: She's throwing punches and dancing after every Gins-burn twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Kate McKinnon as Ruth Bader Ginsburg Put Donald Trump on Blast by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Jul 21, 2016 2:54 PM UTC by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Jul 21, 2016 2:54 PM UTC [Kate McKinnon](http://time.com/4347460/kate-mckinnon-hillary-clinton-ellen-degeneres-impressions/) charmed with her [Ruth Bader Ginsburg](http://time.com/3823889/ruth-bader-ginsburg-2015-time-100/) impression on _Saturday Night Liv_e’s Weekend Update Wednesday night. “Trump picked a fight with the wrong 15-pound, 200-year-old-marionette baby!” said Kate McKinnon bringing back her Ruth Bader Ginsburg impression during the Republican National Convention special. [McKinnon’s](http://motto.time.com/4410357/ghostbusters-kate-mckinnon-paul-feig/) fearless Ginsburg dishes out the Gins-burns, going hard on Donald Trump, Mike Pence, Chris Christie and even Merrick Garland with mostly innocent jabs interrupted by dance breaks. Her moves are successful in that they make Jost feel awkward, like most things that happen on Weekend Update. McKinnon’s Ginsburg impression makes the justice into a tough, self-righteous cutie pie, and she even reveals her cross fit regimen, “that’s when I cross my arms and legs and try to fit inside a soup can.” Most of it got big laughs, even with the small studio audience, and _SNL_ should do this every summer when there’s a convention. Come Fall, McKinnon will likely continue to impersonate Hillary, but as one of _SNL’s_ quickest rising stars with her new movie star status with _Ghostbusters_, she may not be on the show much longer. The Notorious RBG said it best, “I don’t know how much time I have left Colin. I got to get my pokes in while I have my chance.” Weekend Update will return for the Democratic National Convention. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4416907/republican-convention-ruth-bader-ginsburg-kate-mckinnon/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4416907/republican-convention-ruth-bader-ginsburg-kate-mckinnon/"},"headline":"Watch Kate McKinnon as Ruth Bader Ginsburg Put Donald Trump on Blast","datePublished":"2016-07-21T14:54:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:34:38.263Z","description":"\"His mind is sleeping with the fishes\"","url":"https://time.com/4416907/republican-convention-ruth-bader-ginsburg-kate-mckinnon/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Saturday Night Live","Kate McKinnon","Donald Trump","Republican National Convention"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"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/4416907/republican-convention-ruth-bader-ginsburg-kate-mckinnon/","name":"Watch Kate McKinnon as Ruth Bader Ginsburg Put Donald Trump on Blast"}}]}] ```