‘SNL’ cold open spoofs Signal group chat scandal

CNN
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Oscar-winner Mikey Madison appeared in the course of the chilly open of the most recent episode “Saturday Night Live,” which put a spin on the White Home’s Sign group texting scandal.

Madison – the episode’s host – together with Sarah Sherman and Ego Nwodim performed highschool college students texting one another some regular teenage gossip… till Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth, performed by Andrew Dismukes, randomly popped into the chat to replace the chain a couple of pending army plan.

“FYI: Green light on Yemen right now,” Dismukes as Hegseth texted, adopted by a collection of emojis.

Final week, President Donald Trump’s administration got here beneath hearth after The Atlantic reported that a number of of the president’s safety officers and division leaders, together with Vice President JD Vance, had been speaking about forthcoming strikes on Yemen on Sign, an encrypted chat app in a thread that mistakenly included the publication’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg.

At one level within the sketch, Bowen Yang as Vance popped into the chat from Greenland, the place he admitted “nobody knows why I’m here, especially me.”

Marcello Hernandez, taking part in Secretary of State Marco Rubio, additionally chimed in to the chat, happening about releasing the “real JFK files.”

“I think you accidentally added us to a government chat,” Sherman’s excessive schooler character stated.

Bowen as Vance stated that “it could be worse, you could add the editor of the Atlantic again.”

“You did,” replied Mikey Day, taking part in Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg.

The sketch ended with Hernandez’s Rubio making an attempt to gather the three teenage ladies’ identification info to ship to ICE.

The episode marked Madison’s “SNL” debut, with Morgan Wallen serving because the musical visitor. “SNL” airs on NBC at 11:30 p.m. ET/8:30 p.m. PT.