Overview
- The Nov. 8 cold open restaged the White House incident where a guest fainted, with James Austin Johnson’s Trump delivering a monologue as others tended to the collapse.
- The sketch zeroed in on the ongoing shutdown that began Oct. 1, joking about a Supreme Court move that paused a lower-court order to fully reinstate SNAP benefits.
- Trump’s character claimed grocery prices “plummeted straight up,” then pivoted to holiday travel woes tied to federal actions.
- FAA traffic reductions at 40 airports led to more than 1,500 flight cancellations and thousands of delays on Saturday, a disruption echoed in the sketch’s Thanksgiving quip that “all the planes are gone.”
- Johnson’s Trump also mocked Democrats’ election wins, including Zohran Mamdani’s New York City mayoral victory, in an episode hosted by Nikki Glaser with musical guest Sombr.