'SNL' Weekend Update Mocks Trump's Nobel Peace Prize Loss, Pete Hegseth's Execution Plan
Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update segment satirized Donald Trump's reaction to not winning the Nobel Peace Prize and criticized Pete Hegseth's proposal to livestream a firing squad execution. The segment used humor to highlight political controversies surrounding the former president and current administration figures.
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Saturday Night Live ‘s Weekend Update mocked Donald Trump for once again losing - and thinking he actually had a chance at - the Nobel Peace Prize, and took aim at Pete Hegseth ‘s controversial plans for live-streaming a firing squad execution.
The Nobel committee on Friday gave its award to Navanethem "Navi" Pillay, a South African human rights lawyer and judge who investigated war crimes for the United Nations and the International Criminal Court.
“Unfortunately we have to start tonight with a tragic, developing story involving President Trump. No, not that,” Colin Jost joked. “It’s that President Trump has sadly not won the Nobel Peace Prize… But don’t worry. I think he’s taking it all in stride.”
Jost then cut to the president speaking at a rally in Syracuse, New York on Friday, in which he said “no one has ever heard of” the recipient.
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