Overview

• James Austin Johnson appeared as President Trump in a Snack Homiez podcast sketch and praised George Santos after the reported commutation of his sentence.
• In the sketch, Trump rebranded the No Kings protests as celebratory 'Yes, King' marches, claiming people were happy Santos was free.
• Weekend Update opened with Colin Jost joking about Trump 'releasing' Santos and referencing Santos’s guilty pleas for fraud and identity theft.
• The episode, hosted by Sabrina Carpenter, featured Carpenter with Chloe Fineman, Jane Wickline and Veronika Slowikowska as the teen podcasters.
• NBC’s broadcast started about 14 minutes late due to college football, and the show skipped a traditional political cold open that night.