‘SNL’ Weekend Update Tackles Trump-Zelensky Meeting, Musk’s Demands of Federal Workers

“Thanks to that meeting, now you actually can gamble on World War III on Fan Duel,” Colin Jost jokes

Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update addressed Friday’s contentious Oval Office meeting with Donald Trump, J.D. Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, as well as Elon Musk‘s latest demands of the federal workforce.

Co-anchor Colin Jost, after showing Trump repeatedly telling Zelensky that he is “gambling with World War III,” joked that the meeting went “pretty good.”

“Thanks to that meeting, now you actually can gamble on World War III on Fan Duel,” he added.

“Trump repeatedly scolded Zelensky, telling him, ‘You have real problems,’” continued Jost. “Yeah, man! He’s in a war! No one’s asking to borrow missiles so they can take the party to the next level.”

Jost then noted that the Ukrainian leader said later that day during a Fox News interview that he believed he could still salvage his relationship with Trump. That, Jost joked, “is like Justin Baldoni saying, ‘I’d love to work with Blake again.’”

Michael Che then turned to the AI-generated video from Trump depicting bearded belly dancers, a hotel bearing his name, and him and Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu lounging on a beach in Gaza.

“The video was titled, ‘ISIS recruitment ad,’” Che joked.

Regarding another AI-produced video, this one of Trump kissing Elon Musk’s feet that reportedly showed on internal television monitors in the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Jost commented, “You can tell the video is AI because in it, Trump is able to bend.”

Jost also commented on Musk, the head of Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), who appeared at the Conservative Political Action Conference last month wielding a chainsaw and wearing sunglasses.

“Elon Musk, seen here letting ketamine take the wheel,” Jost joked as a photograph of the billionaire showed on screen, “sent an email to federal employees telling them to list five things that I did last week, or they would be fired–which was easier for Elon to do because all five of his were, ‘Got a lady pregnant.’”

Musk’s 14th known child was announced Friday by Shivon Zilis, a Neuralink executive with whom Musk now has four children.