The "comedy" writers at NBC's Saturday Night Live have a raging hatred of President Trump. In the fake-news "Weekend Update" segment, fake anchor Michael Che made a joke about Trump being assassinated at the theater like Abraham Lincoln. The president's been shot once and they caught a second attempted assassination before it could happen. None of that curbs the "comedy."
Che first made an Antichrist joke:
President Trump posted plans for his presidential library in Miami, which would be a massive golden skyscraper would be a golden escalator and a golden statue of Trump, as predicted in the book of Revelations [sic].
President Trump attended the opening night of Chicago at the Kennedy Center, and I think that’s cool that the President is going to the theater. I mean, what’s the worst that could happen?
'SNL' fake-news anchor Michael Che joked about Trump seeing 'Chicago' at the Kennedy Center, makes a Lincoln-assassination joke. That's nasty, but the show's blue-state audience whooped and screamed in blood lust at the thought. Nobody you can hear in this joke sounds like a… pic.twitter.com/7FAA3VYsom
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) April 5, 2026
That's nasty, but the show's blue-state audience whooped and screamed in blood lust at the thought. Nobody you can hear in this joke sounds like a decent human being.
Earlier in the segment, fake anchor Colin Jost also scraped the bottom of the barrel by suggesting Trump might be behind Jeffrey Epstein being killed in prison.
This week, Attorney General Pam Bondi was asked to redact herself from her job. President Trump reportedly fired Bondi over her handling of the Epstein files, because the only person Trump has ever trusted to handle the Epstein situation is a prison guard with the cameras off.
Colin Jost pegs Trump as a killer: "This week...Pam Bondi was asked to redact herself from her job. President Trump reportedly fired Bondi over her handling of the Epstein files, because the only person Trump has ever trusted to handle the Epstein situation is a prison guard with… pic.twitter.com/i00kEVNI5O
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) April 5, 2026
Jost made a naughty "sick burn" face after that one. He also threw in a joke at the vice president's expense. "J.D. Vance is releasing a book about his conversion to Catholicism. The Catholic Church is calling it, 'somehow the worst publicity we've ever had!'" Hunter Biden's memoir never drew a joke like this. They didn't joke about him walking out of a Catholic Church with his Dad. That would apparently be mean.
'SNL' fake-news anchor Colin Jost: "J.D. Vance is releasing a book about his conversion to Catholicism. The Catholic Church is calling it, 'somehow the worst publicity we've ever had!'"
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) April 5, 2026
Hunter Biden's memoir never drew a joke like this. They didn't joke about him walking out of… pic.twitter.com/R6fhA3iAsd
The show's "cold open" skit amazingly did not satirize President Trump. Instead, it was a running joke about Charles Barkley's anti-deportation speech during the Final Four basketball coverage. Kenan Thompson's Fake Barkley did work in Pam Bondi: "As attorney general, Pam Bondi was, and I don't say this often, turrible! It is a shame when somebody gets fired, but we should all be glad that that freckle-chested dragon lady is gone. [Cheers and applause ] Yeah. And not to mention Kristi Noem, whose husband looks like he's starring in Big Momma House IV."
They made a joke about the FCC chairman requiring equal time, so the Pam Bondi impersonator appeared for self-defense: "The truth is I am amazing at my job. I made history as the first woman ever to be fired as Attorney General. [ Laughter ] I shattered that glass exit door."
