During election week, the show reportedly had to do a 180, changing the title of the episode that week to “Oh Jeez” and mocking up a new episode angle after Donald Trump’s surprise win.
Election-oriented comedy did play a huge part in the over-arching plot of Season 20, but it was not as pointed as you might expect it to be.
The series was never outright mimicking the headlines that were coming out each week, however, and now it seems like that happened simply because it was too hard to keep up.
In fact, the parodies mostly aired pre-election and were about a “giant douche” and a “turd sandwich,” nodding at the fact that neither Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton were super satisfactory candidates.