In the episode of Saturday Night Live that aired immediately after the Harvey Weinstein scandal split Hollywood wide open, the sketch show struggled to grapple with the story, offering for one righteous line in a sketch and a few “Weekend Update“ jokes. Like many other people in the industry, they didn’t seem to quite know how to handle it.

Airing a new episode after a three-week break, Saturday Night Live dove right back into the other ongoing scandal riveting the world: Donald Trump and Paul Manafort. But even with the cold open mostly committed to jokes about Manafort’s expensive rugs and Kate McKinnon’s “part-possum“ Jeff Sessions, a single line may have been the show’s most effective condemnation yet of Weinstein.

Alec Baldwin’s Trump barged into the apartment of Paul Manafort (played by Alex Moffatt), and gave his typical stream-of-consciousness advice to his former campaign manager, including the warning, “After the things I’ve said about certain ethnic groups, they’re really going to go to town on you in prison.“ Later in the sketch, after an offhand reference to Weinstein, Baldwin landed the zinger: “What an idiot that Harvey Weinstein is. He could have gotten away with all of it if he had just gotten himself elected president.”

The line is a variation on a comment Baldwin himself made in an interview with the Los Angeles Times, defending his friend, the director James Toback, who has been accused by numerous women of sexual harassment in recent weeks. Baldwin drew criticism for defending Toback (“I don’t know that Jimmy has done anything criminal”), but clearly struck a nerve when he connected the people now making allegations of sexual assault to the Trump presidency:

I’m not the first person to say this—but many many people are rightfully focusing on this, but there is some veneer to it of complexity because they can’t get the guy they really want to get. [Donald] Trump is a sexual predator. On the record, there’s all kinds of evidence that Trump has behaved this way, and he’s the president of the United States and that being just one of the things that is horrifying people about Trump, his opinions, his behavior, his methodology and there’s nothing you can do about that. You cannot touch him.

Trump was accused by 11 women of sexual assault and harassment in October of 2016; weeks later he was elected president. (Trump and his staff have maintained that there is no truth to any of the allegations.) Baldwin’s S.N.L. joke is far from the harshest crack the show has taken at Trump’s expense since then, but it might be the most chillingly spot-on. As much as the political satire on S.N.L. seems to have flagged in the wake of its blockbuster 2016-17 season, the Trump-Weinstein joke proves they still know how to connect the dots when it matters.