„SNL“ verspottet Hegseth und Trump wegen venezolanischen Bootsangriffen im Kalten Offen

Read the source article containing the full video [here](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2025/12/07/snl-cold-open-donald-trump-pete-hegseth/87608191007/).

Colin Jost as Hegseth defended what he dubbed „operation kill everybody,“ and when asked for an official death toll from the strikes, he said, „Let’s just say if I had a drink for every Venezuelan we’ve killed, I’d really like that number of drinks.“ After one reporter in the sketch suggested the administration’s „so-called war on smugglers is a smokescreen for regime change,“ Jost’s Hegseth admitted, „Of course that’s what we’re doing!”

Jost’s Hegseth went on to insist that President Donald Trump has his back and is a „high-energy alpha,“ only for the sketch to cut to James Austin Johnson as Trump sleeping through the press conference.

„I wasn’t sleeping,“ Johnson’s Trump said after waking up. „I’m very much awake. Now, someone quickly tell me: Where am I, who am I, and what year might it be?“

The sketch ended with Trump once again falling asleep, this time while standing up, leading Hegseth to say, „We’ve got to get him to another MRI before he wakes up.”

Shocking, this is their first political cold open since last week.