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Saturday Night Live opened by addressing one of the most concerning stories yet of the second Trump administration: top officials discussing war plans in a group chat that mistakenly included a journalist.
Rather than texting only the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (Andrew Dismukes), Vice President JD Vance (Bowen Yang) and Secretary of State Marco Rubio (Marcello Hernandez) include three high school-aged girls.
As the girls (Ego Nwodim, Sarah Sherman, and SNL host Mikey Madison) discuss topics that have nothing to do with strikes on Houthi rebel forces in the Middle East–one boy’s “glow-up vibes,” for instance–Hegseth sends a message reading, “FYI: green light on Yemenraid!”
“Tomahawks airborne 15 minutesago.Who’s ready to glass some Houthirebels?Flag emoji, flag emoji, flagemoji, flag emoji, fire emoji, eggplant.”
When told he might have the wrong group chat, Hegseth laughed if off.
“Could you imagine if thatactually happened?Homer-disappear-in-the-bush gif.Hey, while I’ve got everyone, sendinga PDF with updated locations ofall our nuclear submarines,” he wrote back, before adding Vance to the chat.
“Nice job on the strike, fam,” the VP wrote from Greenland, where he admitted that “nobody knows why I’m here–especially me.”
Later, Madison announces she has to leave, as someone named Matt has arrived to pick her up. That prompts Hegseth to ask if her date was the scandal-plagued former congressman: “Gaetz?”
“Actually, yeah!” she affirms.
When Rubio joins that chat, he says he’ll be sending the “real” JFK files–“not those fake ones wereleased.”
And upon learning of the non-government employees in the chat with him, Rubio, who seems to have no problem revoking student visas on extremely tenuous grounds, threatens to have them all deported.
“We were totallypranking you guys, LOL,” he writes. “But would you mind emailing yournames and home addresses todeportations@ice.gov?”
