SNL’s Colin Jost Humiliates Huge ‘Weirdo’ Pentagon Pete

Saturday Night Live featured a cold open sketch mocking Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The satire focused on political rhetoric, military policy, and the current state of the Republican party ahead of the 2026 midterms.
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Saturday Night Live star Colin Jost reprised one of the show’s most popular political impressions from last season: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
Introduced while triumphantly shotgunning a beer, Jost’s Hegseth appeared on this week’s cold open to urge Republicans to vote in the upcoming midterms.
“I need all you patriots at home to do the gayest thing ever and vote,” Hegseth told his supporters.
He added, “Thanks to me, the military finally has its priorities and sexuality straight. Our warriors all have high T, testosterone. Yeah, I’m talking muscles, huge. Veins, throbbing. Balls, gone.”
Referencing the real Hegseth’s bizarre recent attempts at poetry, Jost’s Hegseth read out a poem he wrote for his voter outreach efforts.
“No D-E-I, no guy on guy,” Hegseth said. “No fatsos, no fuggos, no camel toes. No weirdos, no beardos, no Jills who became Joes.”
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