Jost suited up as Pete Hegseth, the head of the newly rebranded Department of Defense War, for the cold open. Hegseth welcomes the crew of the USS Abraham Lincoln home after 10 months at sea, one of the longest naval deployments since the Vietnam War.

The “Saturday Night Live” jokes focused on Hegseth’s bravado amid reported bathroom flooding and food shortages.

Just a month away from the volatile midterms and a president way down in the polls, there was once again a plethora of political material ripe for this week's SNL cold open, and the NBC late-nighter went full MAGA,

On 'SNL', the GOP auditions Donald Trump, JD Vance, Pete Hegseth and other top Republicans for a call-to-action midterms video. It doesn't go well The post ‘SNL’ Cold Open: Trump’s Midterms Pitch Dooms Desperate GOP appeared first on Rolling Stone Australia.