“Saturday Night Live” teased President Donald Trump over recent rumors of health concerns and his current obsession with his late night TV critics during the cold open of its Season 51 premiere this weekend.
The sketch kicked off at Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s big military meeting in Quantico last week, where a rowdy Colin Jost lectured America’s top generals about his plan to impose new heath and weight standards across the armed forces.
“Our military will now have the same rules as any good frat party,” he declared.
It wasn’t long before the show’s resident Trump impersonator, James Austin Johnson, popped in to warn the world about what Jost called the “greatest threat to freedom and democracy the world has ever known” — late night television.
“I’m just here keeping my eye on ‘SNL,’ making sure they don’t do anything too mean about me, and they better be careful because I know late night like the back of my hand,” he smirked, flashing a splotchy, makeup masked hand just like Trump has been recently rocking.
