Saturday night Live‘Weekend Update’ didn’t take any jabs at President Donald Trump this week, with anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che taking a dig at him over his ties to the Epstein emails released this week.
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“House Democrats released an email written by Jeffrey Epstein in which he claimed Donald Trump ‘knew about girls,'” says Jost. “This is the bombshell news that has legal experts saying ‘oops’.”
Che also looked into emails from Epstein’s brother Mark. “In one of the emails, Epstein’s brother asked if Vladimir Putin had a photo of Donald Trump having oral sex with someone named Bubba, which was Bill Clinton’s old nickname,” Che says. “So I think this is a job that Trump has created.”
However, Weekend Update didn’t stop at the Epstein emails. Jost and Che also took aim at Trump’s request to name the new Washington Commanders Stadium after him, his denial that the decor in his golden White House comes from Home Depot, and his threatened $5 billion lawsuit against the BBC.
“This might be my favorite episode,” Che says.
rest of this week snl The episode further satirized Trump’s relationship with the Epstein emails, addressed them openly and brought back Will Forte’s MacGruber in a series of shorts.