Overview
- Saturday Night Live’s Nov. 15 opener staged a mock White House briefing where Karoline Leavitt dodged questions before James Austin Johnson’s Trump took the podium.
- Writers leaned on specific lines from the cache, including the widely shared “blowing Bubba” email, and joked that Trump would sell gold‑framed “Epstein files” for $800.
- The satire followed this week’s House Oversight release of roughly 20,000–23,000 Epstein emails, several of which reference the president.
- In the sketch, Leavitt repeated her real‑world line that the emails “prove President Trump did nothing wrong,” reflecting the administration’s public stance.
- Coverage noted that the House is expected to vote soon on releasing the full Epstein files, extending political pressure after Trump labeled the disclosures a “hoax.”