Jayme Deerwester

USA TODAY

Alec Baldwin must have sensed how much America missed him last week.

He was back in character as a transition-stage Donald Trump in the cold open of Saturday Night Live.

But the brash candidate has been replaced by a stressed president-elect who's becoming unnerved to the point (whatever counts as unnerved for Trump, anyway) where already he's backing off his biggest campaign promises and has to rely on a mantra to stay calm: "Big, beautiful boobs and buildings."

Hey, whatever gets you through to inauguration, dude.

Kate McKinnon's Kellyanne Conway was also having buyer's remorse. When he told her he wouldn't be president without her, she confessed, "I think about that every day, sir."

Jason Sudeikis dropped by as 2012 GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who met with Trump Saturday afternoon.

"This isn't going to work is it?" Romney realized as they engaged in the world's longest, most awkward handshake.

"I don't think so."

"I'll be in the pro shop."

And Beck Bennett reported in as Vice President-elect Mike Pence, just back from seeing Hamilton. "It was good," he told his boss. "I got a free lecture."

And he reassured his boss, who nervously asked, "Oh, and Mike, you're going to do everything, right?"