The president (James Austin Johnson) warned of "Arctic immigrants are coming in through our chimneys and stealing our milk and cookies" in the final cold open of 2025.

Saturday Night Live‘s Donald Trump tried any which way he could to come up with a satisfactory explanation for his reluctance to release more files related to Jeffrey Epstein. In a White House press briefing, the president (James Austin Johnson) was ...

"Saturday Night Live" is taking on those Jeffrey Epstein emails. In the show's latest cold open, James Austin Johnson starred as President Donald Trump defending himself after the House Oversight Committee this week released emails from convicted sex ...

The cold open kicked off with White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt (Ashley Padilla) reluctantly fielding questions from reporters about the emails at a press briefing. "The only thing these emails prove is that President Trump did nothing wrong!

The sketch comedy show once again opened with a political-themed bit that brought Weekend Update host Colin Jost back as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. In the sketch, Jost’s Hegseth addressed recent news items surrounding the bombing of boats off the coast of Venezuela.