US Edition‘Saturday Night Live’ Opens With An Adderall- And Ambien-Using Donald Trump Trying To Take Press Questions On Netflix-WBD, Jeffrey Epstein & Santa
SNL's cold open satirized Trump with references to military strikes, declassified videos, and Epstein photos, featuring host Josh O'Connor and musical guest Lily Allen.
- On Dec. 13, SNL opened with James Austin Johnson portraying President Donald Trump taking press questions aboard a mock Air Force One; Josh O'Connor hosted the episode with Lily Allen as musical guest.
- Responding to headlines this week, the sketch skewered the new Epstein images released Friday by House Democrats and U.S. strikes on alleged Venezuelan drug boats plus a Venezuelan oil tanker seizure.
- SNL's gag used a mock declassified strike clip to portray Santa Claus as the target, showing James Austin Johnson's Trump presenting declassified footage of the sleigh blown up midair soon after.
- After calling the photos a hoax, James Austin Johnson's Trump reversed course on the Jeffrey Epstein photos, prompting White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt to declare them `100% legit`.
- The Dec. 13 episode was the second in a three-week run to close out 2025, preceding Ariana Grande's Christmas episode on Dec. 20 that wraps SNL's year-end schedule.
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'SNL' Mocks Donald Trump Over Newly Released Jeffrey Epstein Photos
“I'm in the files. I took a lot of great pictures!” James Austin Johnson said, parodying Trump, on the Dec. 13 episodeAnna Moneymaker/Getty; Rick Friedman/Rick Friedman Photography/Corbis/Getty Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein.NEED TO KNOWSaturday Night Live took aim at Donald Trump on Dec. 13, just one day after the president appeared in newly released photos from Jeffrey Epstein's estateJames Austin Johnson’s Trump held a press conference in the…
'I'm in the files!': SNL'S Trump tricked into confessing photos with Epstein are real
Donald Trump's character on Saturday Night Live was tricked into admitting his deep ties to the now-deceased child sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein are legitimate.Giving interviews with the press aboard Air Force 1, James Austin Johnson's Trump character notes that he is on both Adderall and Ambien. He is asked about numerous subjects, and at one point shows a video of his administration shooting down Santa Claus from the sky as if he were a narco ter…
‘SNL': Trump Berates Journalists, Shoots Down Santa Claus in Cold Open
“Saturday Night Live” opened the show from Air Force One as the press corps peppered James Austin Johnson’s President Donald Trump while he was on a cocktail of Ambien and Adderall. Ashley Padilla as Karoline Leavitt fielded questions from the journalists, and Trump complimented her lips. “How great is Karoline Leavitt?” he said. “We love her. Oh, she’s got a beautiful face and those lips that don’t quit …Look at those lips. They go like a machi…
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