Weekend Update was stuffed with zingers about President Donald Trump‘s speedy about-face within the wake of the inventory market crash his international tariffs spurred.
Co-anchor Colin Jost kicked off the Saturday Night Live section by quipping that POTUS “tried to rescue the economy from the disastrous policies of whoever was president last week.”
Addressing company CEOs’ shock on the aggressive tariffs, the late-night present performed a supercut of Trump’s affinity for tariffs, one thing voiced typically throughout his presidential marketing campaign. “It’s like listening to Bubba Gump talk about shrimp,” Jost remarked.
Meanwhile, co-host Michael Che chimed in, calling into query Trump’s declare that the financial downturn was like treating an ailment: “Yeah, but this feels like we took a whole bottle of medicine with a glass of vodka and laid in a warm bath.”
Che additionally obtained the most important response of the night time, together with his one-liner: “It was reported that Elon Musk personally appealed to President Trump to stop his tariff plan, and it worked! The stock market went up like this,” he mentioned, enthusiastically, as an image of Musk’s Nazi-like salute flashed on display, eliciting exclamations from the viewers.
Later on, Weekend Update featured a trio of visitor appearances from Bowen Yang who resurrected his recurring Chinese commerce minister Chen Biao, Emil Wakim and his notes on American patriotism and Sarah Sherman as Jost’s fictitious accountant Dawn Altman.
Some one-liner highlights from every:
“So the next time you buy a pair of Tom’s, they’ll donate another pair to you, because you’re the one in need, you poor bitch!” Yang exclaimed in reference to the dire state of the American economic system.
Wakim, who entered the Weekend Update desk with mini American flags in tow, started, “This was just to buy me some good will before the stuff I’m about to say, but it’s a tough time to criticize America publicly, especially with eyebrows like this.” True to his stand-up roots, the SNL rookie’s three-minute set launched into cracks concerning the “cruelty” of on a regular basis interactions with Uber Eats drivers that borderline on “racist” after shoppers order a “$40 burrito” as a deal with following a “hard day sending emails for Hitler or whatever anyone’s job is.”
Sherman, in pitch good misery as Dawn Altman, ended her time on Weekend Update by placing her head by way of the again wall of the set, exclaiming that there have been “so many” ladies tied up contained in the wall, which prompted a set of sure fingers to come back out of the torn wallpaper.