“Saturday Night Live” ridiculed the recent trip of the Middle East of President Donald Trump at its end of the season, trivializing what the administration announced as an important restart of foreign policy.
The Cold Open had James Austin Johnson as an exaggerated Trump with a fictional heir prince Mohammed Bin Salman. The sketch suggested an unlikely joke.
“We are together now, joking, of course, but we are vibrating,” Trump joked about Johnson, as if he described a new romance.
“I, of course, am a great admirer of everything Saudi Arabia has to offer, from oil to money. To the end of the list,” he added.
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The president of the United States, Donald Trump, meets with the Saudi prince Mohammed Bin Salman during a “coffee ceremony” in the Saudi royal court on May 13, 2025 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Getty images)
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Actually, Trump returned to Washington promoting three important investment agreements worth bills of Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Qatar, the commitments he said they would reinforce the economy of the United States.
Trump of SNL implied that their motives were not so patriotic.
“I didn't make this trip to me. I want to clarify it. I did this for the American people. And, in many ways, myself, my personal enrichment. I did it too. I did it very well on this trip,” he boasted.
The show also took advantage of the controversy about a gifted Jet of $ 400 million in Qatar to the United States, an issue that now under the scrutiny of the Democrats of the House of Representatives.
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“The Qatar gave me a $ 400 million plane. Can you believe that? And people said it was a kind of bribery,” said the false president. “It is not true, it is not true, because they have not asked for anything in return. Well, not yet. Very well, so it is a pre-boban.”
The Trump defended the plane in an interview on Friday with Fox News Bret Baier political presenter, describing it as “a good business” and pointed out delays in the new Boeing Air Force One project.
SNL then made fun of the recent safety scares of Boeing and the country's old air traffic control system. Johnson's Trump complained that he preferred the Qatar plane on an American plane.
“Have you seen what is happening with our planes? The radar is down and the screen is blank: Newark,” he said, referring to at least three equipment interruptions in Newark Liberty International in recent weeks.
A second segment in the episode, led by host Scarlett Johansson and musical guest Bad Bunny, also went out of Newark's radar failures, turning the problem into a comic rap on a stressful landing and the pilots that were cut from the control tower.
Saturday Night Live – Episode 1878 – in the photo: (LR) James Austin Johnson as Donald Trump and Marcello Hernández as Marco Rubio during the Cold Open “Trump Musk Rubio” on Saturday, March 8, 2025. (Will Heath/NBC through Getty Images)
The Trump's opening sketch ended with the typical blows of the program to the President and his continuous daily media presence.
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“Since it is an end, that means that after tonight, you will not see me here for a while. Well, not the false and fun version of me that makes you smile. The real one will still be omnipresent. You cannot escape me, right? I am everywhere.”
Before signing for its summer parenthesis, Trump's fictional version joked: “See you again in autumn, if we still have a country.”
