Guardian Australia
The two-time Oscar nominee, who will next be seen in the controversial Michael Jackson biopic, helps to usher in an unusually strong episode Saturday Night Live opens in the Oval Office, where president Trump (James Austin Johnson) dictates an insane, Islamophobic Truth Social post to press secretary Karoline Leavitt (Ashley Padilla). She voices her concern over the backlash she will have to field, but Trump assuages her: “Like I said to Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem right before I fired them, you’re doing a terrific job.” As she takes her leave, Trump gets a huge laugh by breaking the fourth wall to note, “All three of those were played by Ashley, it’s an interesting detail.” Moving on to more pressing business, Trump rings up Tiger Woods (Kenan Thompson), currently in rehab in Switzerland after flipping his car and getting a DUI but hangs up on him when informed there’s no golf course on site. He then answers a call from wife Melania (Chloe Fineman), who informs him that she has decided “to do a big, random speech completely out of nowhere and say, ‘I am not Epstein victim’.” For once, it’s Trump who’s acting sane by comparison. Continue reading...
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