Though Saturday Night Live faced some controversy for inviting fired cast member Shane Gillis to host the show earlier this year, Lorne Michaels reportedly invited Gillis back for a recurring role in Season 50.

The comedian revealed as much during a recent appearance at Skankfest, a comedy festival in Las Vegas, according to Deadline.

Podcaster Luis J. Gomez shared the news when he told the audience “nobody thought” Gillis would be appearing at the festival “because he was offered to play Trump on the entire season of SNL.”

Gillis recalled, “They said, ‘Are you serious? You’re going to say no?’ I said, ‘Lorne, I’ve got to go to Coke Magic.’”

Gillis’ Trump impersonation has become rather well-known in the comedy world. He recently performed his Trump impression on the Kill Tony podcast just days after the former president survived an attempted assassination.

SNL cast member James Austin Johnson, who impersonated Trump last season, once again reprised the role ahead of the new season.

Johnson parodied the presidential candidate during the recent premiere of Season 50, where he was joined by Maya Rudolph as Kamala Harris, Bowen Yang as J.D. Vance, Jim Gaffigan as Tim Walz, and Andy Samberg as Doug Emhoff. Dana Carvey also returned to SNL to impersonate President Joe Biden.

The show has become known for delivering award-winning impersonations of the candidates. Rudolph won an Emmy in 2020 for her performance as VP Harris. Alec Baldwin, who impersonated Trump from 2016 through 2020 before Johnson, also won an Emmy for the impersonation in 2017.

SNL‘s 50th anniversary season has been a highly anticipated event for fans because it coincides with what has proven to be a very eventful presidential election. After President Biden bowed out of the race and endorsed Harris, fans were demanding that Rudolph return to the show for another spin as the politician. But there was much debate over who could play the other candidates in the race.

Carvey revealed on his Fly On The Wall podcast with David Spade that the show updated their physical characterization of Trump ahead of Season 50.

“They went next level with James Austin Johnson about Trump,” Carvey said. “They put a bald cap on [him] because Trump is thinning in the back a little bit.”

“They gave him a bigger, whoop-dee-doo fat suit,” he said.

And there’s going to be a lot more where that came from. There’s only 28 days left until the presidential election, which means SNL will surely have plenty of material to work with.

SNL airs Saturdays on NBC at 11:30 p.m. ET/8:30 p.m. PT.