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Kate McKinnon Playing a Hybrid Pennywise-Kellyanne Conway Is Legit Terrifying

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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This is How Kellyanne Conway Explained Why She Didn't Vote for Hillary to Her Daughters

From Oprah Winfrey as “The Titan” to Shonda Rhimes as “The Showrunner,” the women in TIME‘s new “Firsts: Women Who Are Changing The World” feature are shattering barriers and glass ceilings in their respective fields. Among the dozens of game-changers is Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway. Her title? “The Adviser.” Her position is one that’s raised more than a few eyebrows, and questions, along the way—including ones from her daughters about why their mom didn’t support the first female presidential candidate from a major party. (Hillary Clinton, of course, is also included in the feature as “The Nominee.”)

In a video interview with TIME, Conway mentions that her gender was always a point of interest as she started a career in Republican politics 20 years ago. “There were few women consultants; there were few women candidates; there were certainly few women congressmen and officeholders,” she said. “I have described [it] as walking into the men’s locker room at the Elks Club, holding a bachelor party.”

Once she learned how to “think like a man and to behave like a lady,” as she put it—which speaks to just how much we need more women in politics, no?—she started to feel more comfortable in her role. But she was, and still is, a minority in politics. So it’s not surprising that her children wanted to know “why Mommy, who’s a woman, did not support the first female presidential candidate from a major party.”

“I would tell them that I respect very much that Secretary Clinton was running for president, and it showed that in this country anybody can do anything if they set their mind to it. At the same time, I tried to explain to them that you could be excited for someone with whom you disagree and share in that moment in history as a proud American,” Conway said. “We are making our own choices and really making history every day—but yet making history in the fact that we are increasingly in control.”

In an interview last year she told Glamour that, “I relish the idea of a female president in my lifetime. True feminism means you’re strong and independent enough to stand on your own. It motivates me to say that I’m for a woman, but not that woman. I’m like many American women in that we say Hillary Clinton shares our agenda but not necessarily our life experience, our vision, or our values.”

Instead, she’s supported Donald Trump throughout his many lies and sexual assault allegations—which, one day, might be a little harder to explain to her daughters.

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