The Saturday Night Live cold open just spoofed first lady Melania Trump running the idea of her “big, random” Epstein speech by her husband, President Donald Trump.
On Saturday, April 11, the SNL‘s cold open once again featured James Austin Johnson playing the POTUS. It opened with Trump dictating his Easter morning Truth Social post to press secretary, Karoline Leavitt (Ashley Padilla). To the Iranians, he told her to write, “Open the f—in’ strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell.”
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