{"id":2395241,"date":"2025-01-26T09:41:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T14:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/snl-wastes-no-time-in-tearing-apart-trumps-return-to-office-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-01-26T09:44:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T14:44:32","slug":"snl-wastes-no-time-in-tearing-apart-trumps-return-to-office-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/snl-wastes-no-time-in-tearing-apart-trumps-return-to-office-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"SNL wastes no time in tearing apart Trump&#8217;s return to office &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsnl-wastes-no-time-in-tearing-apart-trumps-return-to-office-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2395241&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>the article\u200c discusses a recent episode of &#8220;Saturday night live&#8221;\u2064 (SNL) where cast member James Austin Johnson performed his impression of Donald Trump for the first time as Inauguration Day. During the show&#8217;s opening, Johnson made light-hearted jabs \u200cat Trump, poking fun at his family and commenting on his early presidential actions.\u2063 He humorously stated that Trump had accomplished more\u2064 in his first week than \u2063President Biden and\u200c Vice President \u200bKamala Harris had in their\u2064 four years,\u200c attributing his success to &#8220;executive orders.&#8221; Johnson&#8217;s impersonation included jokes\u2064 about the high price of eggs and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">mentioned future episodes focusing<\/a>\u2064 on trump&#8217;s\u2064 Cabinet,expressing curiosity about who would portray Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. The skit reflected on Trump&#8217;s history with SNL, highlighting his frequent criticism of the show \u200cthrough <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">social media<\/a>.\u200d As\u200b of the article&#8217;s publication, Trump had not publicly \u2064responded to the segment.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">SNL wastes no time in tearing apart Trump&rsquo;s return to office: &lsquo;Great first week&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1949493\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/saturday-night-live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Saturday Night Live<\/a> <\/em>tapped its cast member <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/comedy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">James Austin Johnson<\/a> to put on his <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a> impression for the first time since Inauguration Day.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Johnson took jabs at Trump in the show&rsquo;s open, including jokes about the first family. He claimed Trump&rsquo;s &ldquo;new favorite son is Barron,&rdquo; who is &ldquo;smacking his head on every door frame&rdquo; of the White House &ldquo;like when Gandalf goes to Bilbo&rsquo;s house.&rdquo; Johnson referred to Melania Trump as the &ldquo;surprise guest&rdquo; at the inauguration who was &ldquo;dressed like frankly Kung Lao from <em>Mortal Kombat<\/em>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s been a great first week. I&rsquo;ve done more in the past four years than sleepy Joe and Kamala did in the past four years. All thanks to my beautiful executive orders,&rdquo; Johnson also said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has long been the focus of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shake-up-coming-at-saturday-night-live-four-major-stars-leaving-report\/\" title=\"Shake-Up Coming At \u2018Saturday Night Live,\u2019 Four Major Stars Leaving: Report\">comedy sketch show<\/a>, prompting criticism from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">president<\/a> due to the varied impersonations of him from cast members and guests. While the show has poked fun at Trump since he won the election, this was their own inaugural episode, which featured Lin Manuel Miranda in his iconic Alexander Hamilton character, which Johnson interrupted with his Trump impersonation.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I basically hit all my campaign promises except for the one people cared about: price of eggs. All-time high,&rdquo; Johnson said with a shrug. &ldquo;Who would have thought it would be easier to get a cease-fire in Gaza than bring down the price of eggs? Might have to take the &lsquo;L&rsquo; on that one. We&rsquo;re looking into fabulous alternative egg options such as seagull or perhaps Cadbury.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share.php?id=2772970&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=10455&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=325ac1e58091aa16cc34bcff10c820cd\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Then, Johnson alluded to future episodes that will feature impersonations of Trump&rsquo;s Cabinet. He joked that <em>SNL<\/em> won&rsquo;t know who to cast as Trump&rsquo;s Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;What is SNL going to do? Who&rsquo;s going to play Hegseth? Look at these guys back here. None of them got the build. Nobody has the jaw,&rdquo; Johnson said. &ldquo;Got plenty of Zuckerberg options, though. That&rsquo;s going to be a fight.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump is notorious for late-night social media posts criticizing <em>SNL<\/em> sketches about him. As of Sunday morning, the president hasn&rsquo;t commented on the cold open segment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1949493\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1949493\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SNL quickly mocks Trump\u2019s return: \u2018Great first week\u2019 with Johnson&#8217;s impression<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2631,"featured_media":2395242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Donald-Trump-WHDC117.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[12653,7958,33930,3634,32076],"class_list":["post-2395241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-snl","tag-comedy","tag-political-satire","tag-trump","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Donald-Trump-WHDC117.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2395241"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2395245,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395241\/revisions\/2395245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2395242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2395241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2395241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2395241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}