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Trump and Pete Hegseth Try to Justify Iran War on ‘SNL’: ‘I Don’t Know What I’m Doing’
Variety ^ | February 28, 2026 | William Earl

Posted on 03/01/2026 9:33:18 AM PST by MinorityRepublican

Clearly, the “Saturday Night Live” writing team had a lot of work to do on Saturday, as they opened the show with a sketch about President Trump’s early morning attack on Iran.

In the Feb. 28 cold open, Trump (played by James Austin Johnson) gives a press conference about the military action.

“It’s me, Donald Trump, FIFA Peace Prize winner and Nobel Peace Prize taker,” he began. “Remember that? I launched this attack after me and my board of peace…we were bored of peace. 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’re doing war.”

Trump soon brought out his secretary of war Pete Hegseth (played by Colin Jost) to speak on the military action.

“They asked for someone to volunteer to receive his half-baked operation, and I didn’t walk — I ran,” Jost-as-Hegseth said. “President Trump called me at two in the morning, and you know, I was awake, sober AF.”

Hegseth then admitted that “I don’t know what I’m doing.”

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1 posted on 03/01/2026 9:33:18 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

So lame….


2 posted on 03/01/2026 9:35:40 AM PST by Rummyfan (Ok In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support lthe civilized man.👨 so t tv)
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To: MinorityRepublican

This seems like a good way to get investigated by the FCC.


3 posted on 03/01/2026 9:37:58 AM PST by Kleon
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To: MinorityRepublican

Going after the Administration when the attack is less than 24 hours old...I suppose that’s a choice but I’d imagine “jokes” like that would have limited appeal even to usual the SNL audience.


4 posted on 03/01/2026 9:40:08 AM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: Kleon

Your objections were valid before the war started.
Now you are just a lame POS….looking to say “I told you so”
I wish I could meet you face to face.


5 posted on 03/01/2026 9:40:18 AM PST by mosley
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To: MinorityRepublican

This “comedy show” was funny in the 1970’s. Not since.

It is just a liberal pukefest now.


6 posted on 03/01/2026 9:41:31 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: mosley

On the street or in an airport concourse or local restaurant is my dream


7 posted on 03/01/2026 9:41:53 AM PST by Az Joe (The Confederate State of Minnesota. Down with the rebels!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Well isn’t that special.


8 posted on 03/01/2026 9:43:02 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: shelterguy

Norm MacDonald (RIP) was funny. That was almost 30 years ago.


9 posted on 03/01/2026 9:43:59 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

SNL went “hate America” years ago. The only reason a non-commie trash is invited is to mock them.


10 posted on 03/01/2026 9:44:16 AM PST by bobbo666
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To: MinorityRepublican

SNL has been leftist propaganda from the beginning.


11 posted on 03/01/2026 9:44:40 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Soviet-style humor. Laugh or go to the gulag.


12 posted on 03/01/2026 9:48:52 AM PST by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

“””Norm MacDonald (RIP) was funny. That was almost 30 years ago.”””

I haven’t watched the show in decades. I see bits and pieces occasionally. But Norm was a funny guy.

I saw a poll years ago that asked people where they got their news. A large chunk of them said late night shows. That explains why they are so clueless. So a show like SNL that was once funny turned into a liberal propaganda show disguised as comedy. The brainwashing continues.


13 posted on 03/01/2026 9:59:08 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: shelterguy
I saw a poll years ago that asked people where they got their news. A large chunk of them said late night shows.

Maybe 20-30 years ago.

Today? No one watches Colbert or Kimmel.

14 posted on 03/01/2026 10:01:14 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Stop watching that show.
Even if you think you’re providing some service by “knowing how the enemy thinks”, or some other such BS - you’re just giving them ratings.


15 posted on 03/01/2026 10:03:42 AM PST by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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To: MinorityRepublican
SNL is so yesterday.
16 posted on 03/01/2026 10:06:02 AM PST by Chgogal (The NYT is the mouthpiece of the violent left-wing Democrat Pa)
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To: shelterguy

......This “comedy show” was funny in the 1970’s. Not since......

RIGHT!!


17 posted on 03/01/2026 10:13:17 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: MinorityRepublican
I would use a word to describe SNL, but why lower the discussion to their level.

So, the left and the democrats now stand with the terrorists in Iran who have destabilized the world for 50 or so years, child rapists, pedophiles, Mexican and South American drug cartels, human slavery, child and woman sex trafficking, organized theft, carjacking, murderers, sexual perversions of every kind, and a host of other nastiness.

Way to go democrats.

BTW, I was a democrat. You people are not. You are some hybrid Marxist-Maoist Genital-cum-perversion.

18 posted on 03/01/2026 10:18:19 AM PST by OpusatFR
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To: MinorityRepublican
I would use a word to describe SNL, but why lower the discussion to their level.

So, the left and the democrats now stand with the terrorists in Iran who have destabilized the world for 50 or so years, child rapists, pedophiles, Mexican and South American drug cartels, human slavery, child and woman sex trafficking, organized theft, carjacking, murderers, sexual perversions of every kind, and a host of other nastiness.

Way to go democrats.

BTW, I was a democrat. You people are not. You are some hybrid Marxist-Maoist Genital-cum-perversion.

19 posted on 03/01/2026 10:18:20 AM PST by OpusatFR
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin
It is a requirement that all leftists come down on the wrong side of history.

20 posted on 03/01/2026 10:21:49 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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