“Saturday Night Live” mocked President Donald Trump’s egomania around the Nobel Peace Prize as well as the U.S. military action in Venezuela and Kristi Noem’s incredibly callous response to the ICE shooting in Minneapolis in the cold open for the show’s first episode of 2026.
There was no shortage of political material to catch up on, and “SNL” made the most of it in a faux Trump news conference and cabinet meeting. Colin Jost played an unhinged Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. Jeremy Culhane played Vice President JD Vance, who whined about his recent trip to Greenland in a nod to Trump’s real-life outrageous threats that the U.S. should
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