SNL Weekend Update torches Trump over Epstein emails
Colin Jost and Michael Che take on the government shutdown, the Epstein emails, and more.
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Belen Edwards
Belen Edwards
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Belen Edwards is an Entertainment Reporter at Mashable. She covers movies and TV with a focus on fantasy and science fiction, adaptations, animation, and more nerdy goodness. She is a member of the Critics Choice Association and the Television Critics Association, as well as a Tomatometer-approved critic.
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 on November 16, 2025
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Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update pulled no punches on President Donald Trump this week, with anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che skewering him over his connections to the Epstein emails released this week.
“House Democrats released an email written by Jeffrey Epstein in which he claims that Donald Trump ‘knew about the girls,'” Jost says. “It’s bombshell news that legal experts are calling, ‘duh.'”
Che also zeroed in on an email from Epstein’s brother Mark. “In one of the emails, Epstein’s brother asked if Vladimir Putin has a picture of Donald Trump giving oral sex to someone named Bubba, which was an old nickname for Bill Clinton,” Che says. “So I guess that’s one job Trump has created.”
Weekend Update didn’t stop at the Epstein emails, though. Jost and Che also targeted Trump’s request for the new Washington Commanders stadium to be named after him, his denial that his golden White House decorations come from Home Depot, and his $5 billion threatened lawsuit against the BBC.
“This might be my favorite episode,” Che says.
The rest of this week’s SNL episode further lampooned Trump’s connections to the Epstein emails, addressing them in the cold open and in a series of shorts that brought back Will Forte’s MacGruber.
Belen Edwards is an Entertainment Reporter at Mashable. She covers movies and TV with a focus on fantasy and science fiction, adaptations, animation, and more nerdy goodness. She is a member of the Critics Choice Association and the Television Critics Association, as well as a Tomatometer-approved critic.
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