When it comes to a political satire, “Saturday Night Live” has not had an end of material possible lately, and for his first spring party, the recent chat of the group of signals that involved officials of the Trump administration and the chief editor of the Atlantic was almost inevitable.
The program returned from a two -week parenthesis and dovered in the debacle in which the main leaders of the Trump administration used the signal application to discuss Military movements against the hutis rebels in Yemen.
The National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, said he established the signal text chat and mistakenly invited Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic, who revealed his existence and published a transcription of the exchange. It shows that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared the moment of planned air attacks, but not the specific objectives, for the March 15 attack.
In the version of the “SNL” events, the chat group included three teenagers, played by Ego Nwodim, Sarah Sherman and presenter Mikey Madison. They were bewildered about strange texts from Hegseth, played by Andrew Dinsmukes.
“Tomahawks in the air 15 minutes ago,” he said, reading his text messages while writing. “Who is ready for glass from some Hutí rebels?” He concluded reading aloud the inclusion of multiple flag emojis, a fire emoji and a eggplant.
Madison’s teenage character replied: “Do we know you, brother? This is Jenebel.”
“Oh, pleasant,” Hegseth replied. “Defense Jenebel, right?”
Nwodim intervened: “I think you have the wrong group chat.”
Hegseth seemed a bit nervous.
Lololol, “he said. “Can you imagine if that really happened? Homer disappears in a Gif Bush.”
The chat continued, something alien to the presence of strangers. Hegseth decided it was an appropriate time to share information.
“While I have everyone,” he said, “sending a PDF with updated locations of all our nuclear submarines.”
Vice President JD Vance, played by Bowen Yang, jumped to the group chat from his trip to Greenland: “Send a PDF of all the agents of the CIA of deep coverage,” he said. “Don’t share!”
The Secretary of State Marco Rubio, played by Marcello Hernández, took his turn.
“Send the Real JFK files,” he said. “They are not those false we launched.”
At this time, teenagers realize that perhaps they should not be in the group.
“We are in high school,” said Nwodim.
When Rubio realized that the three are really high school students, he said they should send their names and housing addresses to “deportations in Ice Dot Gov.”
“It could be worse,” said Vance of Yang. “We could have added the Atlantic editor again.”
“You did,” said the cast member Mikey Day, playing Goldberg as he played on the screen of a phone.
Then he asked the Secretary of Defense to “lose my number.”
“SNL” is transmitted in NBC, a NBCuniversal division, which is also the NBC News parent company. Morgan Wallen was the musical interpreter of the night.
