{"id":137802,"date":"2025-01-26T06:04:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T06:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/26\/weekend-update-on-donald-trumps-first-week-back-in-the-oval-office\/"},"modified":"2025-01-26T06:04:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T06:04:57","slug":"weekend-update-on-donald-trumps-first-week-back-in-the-oval-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/26\/weekend-update-on-donald-trumps-first-week-back-in-the-oval-office\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Weekend Update&#8217; On Donald Trump&#8217;s First Week Back In The Oval Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/saturday-night-live\/\" id=\"auto-tag_saturday-night-live\" data-tag=\"saturday-night-live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saturday Night Live<\/a><\/em>\u2018s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/weekend-update\/\" id=\"auto-tag_weekend-update\" data-tag=\"weekend-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Weekend Update<\/a>\u201d co-hosts <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/michael-che\/\" id=\"auto-tag_michael-che\" data-tag=\"michael-che\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Che<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/colin-jost\/\" id=\"auto-tag_colin-jost\" data-tag=\"colin-jost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colin Jost<\/a> had a lot of material to play with after Donald Trump\u2019s first week again within the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tJost kicked issues off, lobbing a jab at Trump for not placing his hand on the swearing-in Bible, the identical one which was used throughout Abraham Lincoln\u2019s inauguration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI wish those two could talk to each other: Lincoln could teach Trump a lot about the importance of preserving our union, and Trump could teach Lincoln how to turn your head at the exact right moment,\u201d he mentioned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSpeaking on Trump\u2019s instant pardon of the Jan. 6 rioters, Che quipped: \u201cPresident Trump defended his pardon of the January 6 attackers, saying that these are just people who love their country; you know, like how O.J. [Simpson] loved Nicole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHe continued, referencing <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/tesla\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tesla\" data-tag=\"tesla\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tesla<\/a> CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/elon-musk\/\" id=\"auto-tag_elon-musk\" data-tag=\"elon-musk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elon Musk<\/a>\u2018s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/01\/elon-musk-nazi-like-salute-trump-inauguration-rally-1236262006\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nazi-like salute<\/a> following the inauguration, which Musk <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cy48v1x4dv4o\" target=\"_blank\">has since joked about<\/a> and which <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/21\/the-gesture-speaks-for-itself-germans-divided-over-musks-apparent-nazi-salute\" target=\"_blank\">Germans have since decried<\/a>: \u201cElon Musk was criticized for his speech at a rally after the inauguration in which he appears to give the Nazi salute. But c\u2019mon, Elon Musk isn&#8217;t a Nazi; the Nazis made good vehicles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tResponding to the leisure information headlines of the week, Che additionally commented on the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/01\/2025-oscars-nominations-list-1236264399\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Academy Award nominations announcement<\/a>, made partially by colleague Bowen Yang (together with Rachel Sennott): \u201cThe Oscar nominations were announced with the musical <em>Emilia P\u00e9rez <\/em>leading the pack with 13 \u2026 total viewers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMeanwhile, Jost cautioned viewers about repeating a sure sort of habits on his personal sport present <em>Pop Culture Jeopardy!<\/em> \u201cDuring an episode of <em>Wheel of Fortune <\/em>this week, a contestant who had just won $40,000 accidentally tackled host Ryan Seacrest. Well I dare you to try on <em>Pop Culture Jeopardy!<\/em>\u201d he mentioned whereas wielding a prop gun and sending each himself and Che right into a match of giggles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tElsewhere on the phase, Ego Nwodim appeared as Giselle, a \u201cconcerned businesswoman\u201d who voted for Trump and cautioned all Black girls to safe wigs earlier than Trump launched a commerce struggle. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cBlack women \u2026 it is time to act, and buy all the hair and extensions you need before those tariffs kick in. You heard me. We not getting no more Malaysian hair, no Peruvian hair, Indian or Brazilian. We not even gonna be getting no Irish. We about to be in a pickle, a bald-headed pickle,\u201d she urged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAndrew Dismukes additionally appeared alongside his \u201cpuppet dad,\u201d who christened Dismukes the \u201c17th most famous\u201d forged member on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/snl\/\" id=\"auto-tag_snl\" data-tag=\"snl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SNL<\/a><\/em> and Jost because the \u201c16th most famous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSee all of the bits beneath:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Saturday Night Live\u2018s \u201cWeekend Update\u201d co-hosts Michael Che and Colin Jost had a lot of material to play with after Donald Trump\u2019s first week again within the Oval Office. Jost kicked issues off, lobbing a jab at Trump for not placing his hand on the swearing-in Bible, the identical one which was used throughout [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":137804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[482,1558,8572,656,598,235,682],"class_list":{"0":"post-137802","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-gossip","8":"tag-donald","9":"tag-office","10":"tag-oval","11":"tag-trumps","12":"tag-update","13":"tag-week","14":"tag-weekend"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}