Clearly, the “Saturday Night Live” writing team had a lot of work to do on Saturday, as they opened the show with a sketch about President Trump’s early morning attack on Iran.
In the Feb. 28 cold open, Trump (played by James Austin Johnson) gives a press conference about the military action.
“It’s me, Donald Trump, FIFA Peace Prize winner and Nobel Peace Prize taker,” he began. “Remember when I did that? I launched this attack after me and my board of peace decided that we were bored of peace. A little wordplay there, did you catch it? As we all know, Iran has been two weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon for like the last 15 years or something. So we had to act now, and we’re doing war.”
Trump soon brought out his secretary of war Pete Hegseth (played by Colin Jost) to speak on the military action.
“They asked for someone to volunteer to oversee this half-baked operation, and I didn’t walk — I ran,” Jost-as-Hegseth said. “President Trump called me at two in the morning … you know I was awake, sober AF.”
Hegseth then admitted that “I am scared and I don’t know what I’m doing.”
“Heated Rivalry” star Connor Storrie was the host of the Feb. 28 show, with Mumford & Sons as the musical guest. USA men’s hockey stars Quinn and Jack Hughes crashed Storrie’s monologue, as well as USA women’s hockey stars Megan Keller and Hilary Knight. Hudson Williams, Storrie’s co-star on “Heated Rivalry,” showed up later in a sketch about ice skating.
Watch the cold open below.