Overview
- Saturday Night Live opened with James Austin Johnson portraying President Trump to address the administration’s attack on Iran.
- A pre-sketch voiceover framed the news as an announcement delivered at “the very normal time of two in the morning.”
- The impersonated Trump told MAGA voters upset about military action that they are getting what they voted for, asking, “Don’t you know who I am?”
- The sketch cited the long-running claim that Iran was weeks from a nuclear weapon as a rationale and tossed in a joke about distracting from “the Epstein files.”
- Johnson’s Trump leaned on unpredictability as a theme, declaring that even he does not know what he will do next.