SNL Delivers Cabinet Chaos and Maduro Mockery in Cold Open
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SNL's cold open features James Austin Johnson as Trump leading a caricatured cabinet, spoofing the Maduro regime’s ouster in Venezuela and peppered with quotes and jabs at the administration, including Rubio as Secretary of State and Vance as Vice President, plus Noem as Homeland Security and Pete Hegseth as Defense Secretary. Finn Wolfhard hosts and participates in pop-culture sketches, A$AP Rocky performs, and Weekend Update riffs on Trump and ICE, complemented by a batch of pop-culture parodies and other sketches.
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