Few could strike more fear into the hearts of Americans than Donald Trump, Kellyanne Conway, and Pennywise from Stephen King’s It (in theaters now!). So when Saturday Night Live premiered its latest digital short, which incorporates all three into one sketch, chills were had.

The short opens with Alex Moffat as Anderson Cooper leaving the CNN offices late one night. He accidentally drops some papers he’s carrying and chases them as they float way and into a nearby sewer, which is where he encounters Kate McKinnon‘s Conway-Pennywise hybrid, hereafter known as “Kellywise.”

“Hello, Coopy,” says Kellywise, her crazy smile smiling from underground. “It’s me, Kellyanne Conway. But you can call me Kellywise. Kellywise the dancing clown.” When “Cooper” asks what she did to her makeup, which is white with red lips and—are they red tears streaming down her face?—she deadpans, “I toned it down.”

What Kellywise wants more than anything is for “Cooper” to put her on TV. “I’ll give you a quote,” she promises in her frightening clown voice. “I’ll give you a crazy, crazy quote.” Then she does this creepy ghost-like flicker before offering up this example: “OK, so, Puerto Rico actually was worse before Hurricane Maria. And the hurricane actually did blow some buildings back together. And I don’t know why Elizabeth Warren won’t tweet about that.”

Pennywise follows that up with another soundbite: “OK, so, Secretary Tillerson did not call the president a moron. They were sharing a sundae, and the president asked if he wanted more sprinkles, and the secretary says, ‘More on.'”

You know, just some Conway Classics, a.k.a. “alternative facts.”

That’s when Kenan Thompson, playing a police officer, intervenes. He warns “Cooper” against talking to Kellywise. Even Rachel Maddow has fallen prey to her darkness, Thompson says—which is when Cecily Strong-as-Maddow makes her appearance in the sewer next to Kellywise. “You’ll float too, Anderson,” she promises him.

Not giving up, Kellywise tries every trick in the book to convince “Cooper” to have her on his show, including threatening him with his two greatest fears (Trump winning a second term as president and a headline that says “Anderson Cooper Fat Now”). In the end, it’s McKinnon-as-Kellywise-as-Hillary-Clinton (got that?) who finally gets him.

Watch the full thing below—if you dare:

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