Presidential hopeful Nikki Haley made a surprise appearance on Saturday Night Live’s cold opening — delivering the iconic “Live from New York” line after ripping her GOP primary rival, Former President Donald Trump. 

Pretending to be a “concerned South Carolina voter” at a CNN town hall, Haley asked cast member James Austin Johnson, who was playing Trump, “Why won’t you debate Nikki Haley?”

“Oh my God it’s the woman who was in charge of security on Jan. 6,” Johnson, as Trump, exclaimed, “It’s Nancy Pelosi.”

Haley then quipped: “Are you doing ok Donald, you might need a mental competency test?”

“I took it ok and I aced the Test,” Johnson said. “I’m 100 percent mental. And I’m competent because I’m a man. That’s why women shouldn’t run the economy, in fact a woman recently asked me for 83.3 million dollars,” he added in a reference to the E. Jean Carroll defamation judgement brought against Trump last week.

“And you spent 50 million in your own legal defense do you need to borrow some money?” she said.

Johnson then went on a stream-of-consciousness rant that ended with him saying “I see dead people” to which Haley responded: “That’s what voters will say when they see you and Joe on the ballot.”

Johnson’s Trump tried to fire back by telling the former South Carolina governor that the joke “wasn’t very nice.”

“I’m always very nice to you, except when I’ve implied you weren’t born in this country, even though you’re from South Carolina, and now I’m gonna beat you in your state,” he said matter-of-factly.

“And did you win your home state in the last election?” Haley retorted with a grin, subtly calling out the former president for losing to President Biden in New York during the 2020 race.

At one point during the “Republican town hall,” Haley also accepted a question from the episode’s host, Emmy-winning actress Ayo Edebiri.

“I’m just curious, what would you say was the main cause of the Civil War? And do you think it starts with an ‘S’ and ends with ‘Lavery?” Edebiri pressed.

“Yep, I probably should have said that the first time,” Haley responded before quickly delivering the show’s iconic punch: “And live from New York it’s Saturday Night!”

Haley has been under fire for her massive gaffe at a December town hall, in which she claimed the root of the country’s deadliest war was over the limitations that the government placed on its people, but failed to mention the antebellum South’s “peculiar institution” in her response.

Following the backlash, Haley backpedaled to state that “of course” slavery was the cause, adding that she assumed it was a “given.”

Haley quickly uploaded the entire cold opening segment to her X account following her appearance before deleting it and reuploading it nearly an hour later.

She locked in on the “I see dead people” joke she made, adding that she “had a blast on SNL” but was signing off because it was “past Donald’s bedtime so looking forward to the stream of unhinged tweets in the a.m.”

The strange behavior earned the attention of Trump’s camp, with Trump’s advisor screenshotting the GOP contender’s original tweet shortly before it was deleted.

“Why does Tricky [Nikki] keep deleting her SNL video that she posted here on X,” Dan Scavino wrote.

Scavino then uploaded the video to his own profile, claiming Haley had failed in trying to attack Trump, instead embarrassing herself.