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Among the topics Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update took on were Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s latest unscientific comments and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem‘s odd attempt to blame Democrats for the government shutdown.
“Healthsecretary RFK Jr., seen heretrying to cure cancer with hismind, said this week that men who werecircumcised are more likely tobe autistic,” co-anchor Colin Jost said of the proponent of vaccine misinformation, who has claimed that Tylenol is linked to autism. “—Which isn’t surprising comingfrom a man who looks like he’smade out of foreskin.”
Jost then addressed how Noem is subjecting airline passengers in line at Transportation Security Administration checkpoints to a video of her insisting that the government shutdown, which is occurring under a GOP-controlled Senate, House and a Republican president, is actually all Democrats’ fault.
Jost then played a portion of the video—which turned out to be the first line of fictional serial killer Jigsaw’s videotaped message to his tortured victims: “I want to play a game.”
Weekend Update also addressed a recent development—of questionable legality—in the U.S. Treasury.
That department, Michael Che announced, “is planning torelease a silver dollar withPresident Trump’s face on it. And then on the other side, hehas Harriet Tubman in a headlock.”
Tubman, the abolitionist and slave rescuer, would replace Andrew Jackson on the $20, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said way back in 2016. But it’s looking like that may not come about until at least 2030.
Jost also called out Trump for proclaiming an end to Indigenous People’s Day and labeling Christopher Columbus “original American hero.”
“So while Trump is rounding uppeople with ICE, he ispraising Columbus, a guy wholiterally brought boat loads ofHispanics to America,” Jost said.
Weekend Update concluded with a joke off between Jost, Che, and former anchors Tina Fey, Seth Meyers and Amy Poehler, who was SNL‘s host Saturday.
