Saturday Night Live opens with Donald Trump and cabinet boasting of ICE raids, Venezuela invasion and more chaos to come: "Midterms are canceled"

Saturday Night Live returned with a cold open once again featuring Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson), this time boasting ...

SNL cold open spoofs Trump’s obsession with prizes: ‘I love me!’

SNL cold open skewers Trump’s obsession with winning prizes – and taking other people’s: ‘I love me!’ - The opening sketch ...

‘SNL’s First Cold Open of 2026 Goes Big: Trump, Maduro, Minneapolis, and “Canceled” Midterms

Saturday Night Live wasted no time diving back into the political deep end.

Mike Myers Back On ‘SNL' As Elon Musk For Trump Awards Cold Open On A Tragic Day In America

The fatal shooting of an American by federal agents in Minneapolis today was left out of SNL‘s cold open tonight as the Lorne ...
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'SNL' cold open skewers Trump over new Jeffrey Epstein photos

President Donald Trump was the man behind the curtain in the latest "Saturday Night Live" cold open. The show kicked off its Dec. 13 episode with a sketch featuring James Austin Johnson as Trump ...
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On 'SNL,' Trump creates Hunger Games to 'distract' from Epstein files

"Saturday Night Live" is closing out 2025 with a holiday message from President Donald Trump. The cold open of the final "SNL" episode of the year featured James Austin Johnson as Trump delivering a ...