The writers at Saturday Night Live wasted no time incorporating the latest President Donald Trump-related news into the first few minutes of the show's premiere.

Alec Baldwin once again returned to play Trump in Saturday's cold open, which referenced the series of tweets real-life President Trump sent earlier in the day criticising Puerto Rican officials' response to the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.

In the sketch, Baldwin's Trump returns from a golfing outing in Bedminster, New Jersey, to take a call from the mayor of San Juan. "I'm sure she wants to tell me what a great job I'm doing," Trump tells Sarah Huckabee Sanders, played by Aidy Bryant.

She does not. "I"m begging you. Puerto Rico needs your help," says Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz (Melissa Villasenor).