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SNL Skewers Trump Over Gas Prices and Iran War in Harry Styles-Hosted Cold Open

The sketch used recurring impersonations to lampoon broken promises with deliberately vague briefings.

Overview

  • A family at a gas station struggled with roughly $5-a-gallon fuel before James Austin Johnson’s Trump interrupted to address rising costs.
  • He mocked past pledges of "lower gas prices" and "no more wars" and joked that prices stemmed from "The Epstein Files" via a "butterfly effect."
  • He boasted of consulting Jake Paul and compared Iran to "ballet and opera" while casting the United States as Timothée Chalamet.
  • Colin Jost appeared as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who admitted not knowing plans for Iran and told viewers, "The news is we won."
  • The episode, hosted by Harry Styles, extended a recent run of cold opens focused on the Iran conflict and its domestic fallout.