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Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update took on Donald Trump‘s whiplash actions on tariffs, Elon Musk‘s attempt to get the president to back down, and Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s crusade against fluoride in public drinking water, among his other anti-science actions.
Co-anchor Colin Jost joked about one social media post Trump had made this week trying to soothe nerves as markets were falling.
“Just hours before Trump pausedthe tariffs, he tried to calm investors byposting, ‘Be cool, everything isgoing to work out well,’” Jost recalled. “Be cool?This is the global economy.It’s not like we got too highand we’re trying to get throughdinner with our parents.”
Michael Che riffed on a similar Trump comment.
“Trump responded to thefallout from his tariffs sayingsometimes you have to takemedicine to fix something,” he said. “Yeah, but this feels like wetook a whole bottle of medicinewith a glass of vodka and laidin a warm bath.”
Che then noted how Musk last weekend made a personal appeal to Trump to back off on the tariffs.
“It worked.The stock market went up likethis,” Che joked, imitating Musk’s infamous salute from a few months ago, which many likened to a Nazi Sieg Heil.
As for Kennedy Jr., who reportedly intends on instructing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to call for an end to cavity-preventing fluoride in public drinking water, Jost joked that the vaccine skeptic has an alternative: that the health agency “start recommending veneers forkids.”
