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Not to step20p Archivesthe joke too much here, but what Lin-Manuel Miranda is saying is that Donald Trump threw away his shot.

After a Saturday Night Liveopener ripped from the Saturday morning headlines -- Alec Baldwin as Trump clumsily "apple-agized" for his hot-mic "locker-room talk" while Kate McKinnon's Hillary Clinton chugged champagne in celebration -- the Hamiltoncreator took his rightful place on the SNL stage.

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"It takes me seven years to write a show, so I don't know when I'm going to be back here again," Miranda joked, implying that yes, this was his own ... shot.

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Cue Miranda dashing through the audience, unfurling a lyrically updated version of "My Shot" from his hit show Hamilton, even stopping at a framed portrait of Trump in the hallway.

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"Well, you'll never be president, you'll never be president," he taunted with a little dance, and was on his merry way.

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Earlier in the opener, Baldwin-Trump spoke with CNN about his lewd comments from 2005 -- the one gaffe that finally looks like it might get to him.

"I was just trying to look cool. I was trying to impress theBilly Bush," Baldwin-Trump said, one of a flurry of excuses. "This was way back in 2005 ... when I was a young, childish 59-year-old man."

Of course, once his bizarre and baffled interview was over and the camera panned away, Trump was at it again.

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"I wish I was that hurricane," he said. "Tearing through all that hot Miami (inaudible). I would just destroyit."

Shots thrown.

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