Clearly, the \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d writing team had a lot of work to do on Saturday, as they opened the show with a sketch about President Trump\u2019s early morning attack on Iran.<\/p>\n
In the Feb. 28 cold open, Trump (played by James Austin Johnson) gives a press conference about the military action.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s me, Donald Trump, FIFA Peace Prize winner and Nobel Peace Prize taker,\u201d he began. \u201cRemember when I did that? I launched this attack after me and my board of peace decided that we were bored of peace. A little wordplay there, did you catch it? As we all know, Iran has been two weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon for like the last 15 years or something. So we had to act now, and we\u2019re doing war.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump soon brought out his secretary of war Pete Hegseth (played by Colin Jost) to speak on the military action.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThey asked for someone to volunteer to oversee this half-baked operation, and I didn\u2019t walk \u2014 I ran,\u201d Jost-as-Hegseth said. \u201cPresident Trump called me at two in the morning \u2026 you know I was awake, sober AF.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hegseth then admitted that \u201cI am scared and I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m doing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHeated Rivalry\u201d star Connor Storrie was the host of the Feb. 28 show, with Mumford & Sons as the musical guest. USA men\u2019s hockey stars Quinn and Jack Hughes crashed Storrie\u2019s monologue, as well as USA women\u2019s hockey stars Megan Keller and Hilary Knight. Hudson Williams, Storrie\u2019s co-star on \u201cHeated Rivalry,\u201d showed up later in a sketch about ice skating.<\/p>\n
Watch the cold open below.<\/p>\n
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