With Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump and Melissa McCarthy’s Sean Spicer as its two most popular characters, it would be incredibly odd for Saturday Night Live to side-step politics entirely in any given episode. In fact, S.N.L.’s focus on politics this season has been a seven-month mea culpa for allowing Trump to host—and it has injected new life into the show, earning the once-edgy late-night staple a place right back at the top of the pop cultural and political zeitgeist. How, then, does perennial nice guy and political fence-sitter Jimmy Fallon fit into the show he once called home? The answer: by nimbly side-stepping the issue altogether.

Fallon’s famously controversial glad-handing of Donald Trump continues to haunt The Tonight Show host. He even let S.N.L. and his old colleague Tina Fey publicly mock him for it last October.

But Fallon’s fun-loving, late-night party vibe continues to lag in the overall ratings behind Stephen Colbert who, following S.N.L.’s example, has struck ratings gold by throwing Trump firmly under the bus. And while Fallon—perhaps feeling the pressure of these falling ratings—has recently started to get a little meaner about Trump, he still remains a relative pussycat.

So it should come as no surprise that even though Fallon participated in the episode’s political cold open as presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner opposite Baldwin’s Trump, he somehow managed not to say a word against the president. . .literally.

In the sketch itself, Trump makes reference to the fact that unlike other White House advisers jockeying for power, Kushner has not been eager to be seen in the media spotlight. Trump lovingly calls him “a little Jewish Amelie,” a reference to the French film moppet’s silent ways.