What was the focus of the SNL cold open?
The cold open satirized Donald Trump's connection to the Jeffrey Epstein emails.
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Saturday Night Live's cold open tackled the sensitive topic of Donald Trump's connection to the Jeffrey Epstein emails, sparking both laughter and controversy.
The sketch opened with a White House briefing where press secretary Karoline Leavitt, played by Ashley Padilla, deflected questions about Trump's involvement. Johnson's Trump then took over, offering a series of increasingly absurd defenses and attempting to sell gold-framed printouts of the emails. The segment also referenced an email about Vladimir Putin having a compromising photo of Trump. MacGruber makes a reappearance, this time in a spoof where he plans to leak the Epstein files, but changes his tune and tries to dispose of the document after realizing his name is in it.
The cold open satirized Donald Trump's connection to the Jeffrey Epstein emails.
James Austin Johnson played Donald Trump.
"Weekend Update" and a MacGruber sketch also touched on the topic.
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