Trump, Saturday Night Live and Epstein
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The MacGruber shorts were only the tip of the iceberg of this very Epstein-heavy SNL installment. The cold open saw Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson) react to the release of thousands of Epstein emails this week, and Weekend Update continued to mock Trump over his Epstein connections.
Saturday Night Live mocked the Trump administration ’s ongoing attempts to downplay the Jeffrey Epstein scandal in a cold open sketch featuring the president denying he ever really knew Epstein just before offering to sell the Epstein files for $800 as a “stocking stuffer.”
Will Forte ’s MacGruber returned to Saturday Night Live in a sketch that riffed on the Trump administration’s attempts to keep the Epstein files unsealed.
President Donald Trump's political dominance is showing cracks as he faces challenges on affordability and the Jeffrey Epstein case
The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives will vote on Tuesday on forcing the release of investigative files on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, with passage seen as all but guaranteed.