‘SNL’: Trump Talks George Santos, “Yes, King!” Marches and Candy in Sabrina Carpenter Episode
Donald Trump may not have appeared in the cold open this week, but he still managed to hijack Saturday Night Live — through James Austin Johnson’s reliably unhinged impression.
During the October 18 episode hosted (and musically led) by Sabrina Carpenter, Johnson’s Trump made a surprise appearance on “Snack Homiez,” a fake podcast hosted by Carpenter, Chloe Fineman, Jane Wickline, and Veronika Slowikowska. The setup was simple: a group of twenty-somethings asking the former president about junk food. The outcome, of course, was anything but.
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When the hosts asked what he thought about the candy Airheads, Trump launched into a meandering tangent that covered everything from street protests to George Santos’ prison release.
“You know who I like is that George Santos,” Trump said. “He’s weird, he’s a liar. I think he’s great. We don’t know anything about him, he’s one of our favorite people. I don’t know him at all, but one of our favorite people. People are marching because they’re happy he’s free. It’s a ‘Yes, King!’ march. They say, ‘Yes, King!’”
It was peak Johnson-as-Trump — nonsensical, rambling, and somehow tied to candy. You can watch the “Snack Homiez” sketch below.
The episode itself got off to an unusual start. A college football overrun delayed the show’s start by about 14 minutes, and instead of a political cold open, SNL kicked things off with a revival of the beloved “Domingo” sketch.
George Santos’ name resurfaced later during “Weekend Update,” where Colin Jost took aim at the former congressman’s release from prison.
“Yesterday, President Trump finally released what everyone has been asking him to release: George Santos, the former Republican congressman who pled guilty to fraud and something called ‘aggravated identity theft,’ which I think is when you push someone in a closet and change clothes with them,” Jost joked.
Carpenter, meanwhile, poked fun at her own image during her monologue, addressing her racy Man’s Best Friend album cover and her reputation as a “horndog pop star.”
“Everyone thinks of me as this, like, horndog pop star, but there’s really so much more to me,” she told the audience. “I’m not just horny. I’m also turned on and I’m sexually charged. And I love to read. My favorite book is the encyclopedia. It’s so big and it’s hard…”
She even projected the controversial album image for the audience, claiming it was misunderstood.
“Some people got a little freaked out by the cover. I’m not sure why,” Carpenter said. “It was just this me on all fours with an unseen figure pulling my hair. But what people don’t realize is, that’s just how they cropped it. If you zoom out, it’s clearly a picture from the 50th anniversary special of Bowen (Yang) helping me up by the hair… after Martin Short shoved me out of the buffet line.”
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