Overview

• James Austin Johnson’s Trump warned late-night hosts to be on their “best behavior,” ending the segment with the line, “Daddy’s watching.”
• Mikey Day portrayed FCC Chair Brendan Carr as the president’s enforcer, nodding to recent scrutiny that followed Jimmy Kimmel’s remarks and ABC’s brief schedule pullback.
• The sketch opened with Colin Jost as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, riffing on his Quantico speech about appearance standards for Pentagon personnel.
• Writers folded in Trump’s recent boasts about ending wars and a jab about the Riyadh Comedy Festival, continuing SNL’s running political satire.
• The bit quoted language from an alleged Trump birthday message to Jeffrey Epstein that Congress published last month, which the president has denied writing.