In what feels like a sketch ripped straight from real life — because it basically is — Saturday Night Live took aim at the Trump administration’s latest digital blunder: accidentally adding The Atlantic‘s Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg to a clandestine Signal group chat meant for war planning. Signalgate quickly became social media’s favorite punchline and got the full SNL treatment this weekend.
‘The Daily Show’ gleefully mocks Trump officials’ scrambling Signal chat excuses
The Cold Open follows up on Signalgate, with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (Andrew Dismukes) mistakenly adding a trio of high school girls to the secret thread. Cue host Mikey Madison, Ego Nwodim, and Sarah Sherman trying desperately to convince Hegseth—and later Marco Rubio and JD Vance—that they are not the intended recipients of updates on deep-cover FBI agents and plans to steal the pyramids of Giza.
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