‘SNL’ Cold Open spoofs Signal chat controversy with Trump officials adding teens to group text
- Oscar-Winner Mikey Madison made her debut on 'Saturday Night Live', which spoofed a texting scandal involving former President Donald Trump’s officials and the Signal app.
- A report by The Atlantic revealed that officials, including Vice President JD Vance, mistakenly added editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg to a chat about Yemen strikes.
- In the sketch, Bowen Yang, portraying Vance, humorously questioned his own presence in Greenland.
- The cold open included jokes about the texting blunder, including a comment on adding the editor of The Atlantic again.
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From JFK files to Greenland, here's how SNL roasts Trump admn's Signal scandal with Mikey Madison playing teen girl
‘Saturday Night Live’ took a brutal swipe at Donald Trump administration's latest Signal text scandal, which garnered huge backlash from the Democrats.
Pete Hegseth, JD Vance stumble into teen girls’ text chain about boys as SNL takes on SignalGate
"Saturday Night Live" took on the Signalgate drama, spoofing the scandal by casting Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Vice President JD Vance as accidentally stumbling into a text chain of high school girls — and sharing government secrets anyway.
‘SNL’ roasts Trump admin’s Signal fail in group chat Cold Open
In what feels like a sketch ripped straight from real life — because it basically is — Saturday Night Live took aim at the Trump administration’s latest digital blunder: accidentally adding The Atlantic's Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg to a clandestine Signal group chat meant for war planning. Signalgate quickly became social media's favorite punchline and got the full SNL treatment this weekend. SEE ALSO: 'The Daily Show' gleefully mocks Tru…
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