SNL Weekend Update Skewers Trump Over George Santos, John Bolton and More

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Saturday Night Live mostly stayed apolitical this week — with pop star Sabrina Carpenter hosting and many of the sketches centering on her. But Weekend Update devoted a meaty chunk of its segment to President Donald Trump and various others in his political orbit over the past few days.

In a four-minute mid-show sequence on Saturday, Update hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che took turns razzing Trump — with Jost starting off by hitting the president’s commutation of George Santos’s prison sentence.

“Yesterday, President Trump finally released what everyone has been asking him to release — George Santos,” Jost cracked, with a nod to the still-hidden DOJ files on Jeffrey Epstein.

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Jost went on to target Santos over his penchant for bending the truth.

“Santos says that he’s a changed man and even released a photo of his new prison body,” Jost said — as a photoshopped image showing Santos to be comically buff was posted on screen.

Che, for his part, poked fun at an image of Trump on the cover of Time magazine in which Trump’s neck was prominently featured from an awkward angle.

“President Trump criticized Time magazine for using a bad picture of him on the cover, saying, ‘they disappeared my hair,'” Che said — as the shot switched to a close-up of the president’s neck. “And I gotta agree — that thing do look waxed.

And Jost called out the Trump DOJ’s indictment of former National Security Advisor John Bolton — noting that Bolton “has become the third person on President Trump’s enemies list to be indicted. And you know you aren’t living your life right when you keep an actual list of your enemies…At least, that’s what my therapist told me…So now she’s on the list, too.”

Watch above, via NBC.