Colin Jost’s Secretary of Struggle Pete Hegseth declared “frat get together” guidelines for the army, whereas James Austin Johnson’s President Trump questioned Jost’s absence from the Riyadh Comedy Pageant in Saudi Arabia in tonight’s Season 51 premiere “Saturday Night time Stay” chilly open.
“Our army is homosexual as hell,” Jost’s Hegseth introduced on the prime of the chilly open. “Because of failed liberal insurance policies, our military has by no means been gayer, and but it’s additionally by no means been fatter. Make that make sense?” Additional mocking Hegseth’s personal army speech earlier this week, Jost’s Secretary of Struggle added, “Our army will now have the identical guidelines as any good frat get together. No fats chicks, and in case you’re a fats dude, god rattling it, you higher be humorous as hell!”
Jost’s Hegseth then tee’d up Johnson’s Trump, telling “SNL” viewers, “We face the best menace to freedom and democracy the world has ever recognized, and everyone knows what that menace is: late night time TV.” The president slid into body, solely to inform Jost that he was stunned to see him on “SNL” tonight.
“I assumed he’d be along with his associates on the Riyadh Comedy Pageant,” Trump remarked, prompting Jost to confess, “I didn’t get a suggestion.” Turning again to the digital camera, Trump joked, “We love the Saudis as a result of they wish to saw-these journalists in half… That’s the sort of factor that will kill over there.”
You possibly can watch tonight’s “SNL” chilly open your self within the video beneath.
As he ushered Jost off the stage, Johnson’s Trump referenced the president’s purported, real-life letter to Jeffrey Epstein, telling the “Weekend Replace” co-host, “Colin, might day-after-day be one other great secret. That was a quote from a poem I wrote to a horrible man I’ve by no means met earlier than!”
“Right here we’re. ‘SNL’ Season 51… ought to have referred to as it at 50, proper?” Johnson’s Trump joked. “So unhappy to see one thing get outdated and confused and but nonetheless demand your fixed consideration. Oh, properly. However they higher be on their finest habits, in any other case they’ll must reply to my assault canine on the FCC, Brandon Carr.”
Mikey Day’s Carr subsequently danced into body to the beat of Rockwell’s “Any person’s Watching Me,” solely to unsuccessfully inform his boss that his first title is definitely Brendan.
“It’s loopy you assume I care,” the president replied. Moments later, proper earlier than he formally kicked off the night time’s present, Johnson’s Trump added, “Bear in mind: Daddy’s watching!”
