Chess Semifinals — Gillis and Grace Reiter (who has made many appearances in this episode) play the divorced white-trash parents of a kid at a chess tournament, and you can kind of see where this would be going. Reiter makes it work to the extent that it does. (Score: 5 out of 10)

The Season 52 premiere also mocked the president's special aide Natalie Harp.

Vice President JD Vance (Jeremy Culhane), Pete Hegseth (Colin Jost), Marco Rubio (Marcello Hernández), President Trump (James Austin Johnson) also pitched voters ahead of the election.

From there, the Cold Open is what you'd expect with Trump meandering through the week's headlines. There's his sit-down with China's Xi Jinping, plus the dinner that followed, which doubled as a who's who of Silicon Valley's biggest tech titans.

The show also took aim at the president's $5,000 election promise that 'is not a bribe.'

"Saturday Night Live" is ready for the midterms. The sketch show's latest cold open on Oct. 3 depicted Republicans recording a series of get-out-the-vote ads in response to "bleak" polling ahead of the upcoming midterm elections. Colin Jost reprised his ...

“She’s like the girl from ‘Obsession,’ but blonde,” James Austin Johnson as Trump quips.

Saturday Night Live's cold open got the episode started with a greeting from Colin Jost's Pete Hegseth welcoming the USS Abraham Lincoln back to land after being deployed for 321