Connecticut Should Consider Saturday Night Live’s Trade Request

Hey Connecticut, would you accept a fictional trade to Italy? I know it's only a joke that was dreamed up by a comedian writing for a tv show, but is this proposal any weirder than the real world?

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Connecticut was mentioned during the opening sketch on Saturday Night Live this weekend when Sarah Sherman, portraying Rachael Maddow, interrupts MSNBC 'Special weekend coverage of the inauguration' with the 'Breaking News that 'Trump has apparently just told reporters that he would like to 'Trade Connecticut for Italy'. Here's the clip, the joke is two minutes in.

I'm thinking about it today because during President Trump's true inauguration he stated that the Gulf of Mexico will be renamed the Gulf of America, and the US will retake ownership of the Panama Canal. Are there any rules left that are unthinkable, or unbreakable?

Waterbury wouldn't notice much of a difference between itself and Sienna, Italy, the Torre del Mangia in Sienna inspired the Seth Thomas Company to build a twin at Waterbury's Union Station in 1909. A main component of Connecticut's identity in 2025 is pizza. In my opinion, Italian-American owned pizzerias in Connecticut seemingly receive the majority of buzz and national acclaim too.

Would you trade Frank Pepe for cacio e pepe? President Trump for President Mattarella? Sergio Mattarella has been President of Italy since 2015, around the same time that we got our first serving. It's all a fantasy, dreamed up at 4am on Tuesday morning in New York City, but the joke hit a little deeper than I expected it today.