Overview

• Saturday Night Live’s season 51 premiere opened with James Austin Johnson’s Trump interrupting a Colin Jost Pete Hegseth sketch to warn the show about jokes at his expense.
• The cold open invoked FCC chair Brendan Carr as an “attack dog,” with Mikey Day portraying Carr and correcting the president’s misnaming.
• The segment referenced late-night turmoil tied to Stephen Colbert’s cancellation and Jimmy Kimmel’s brief suspension, with CBS stating Colbert’s exit was a financial decision after the FCC approved the Paramount–Skydance merger.
• White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told Entertainment Weekly that responding would be a waste of time and said she had “more entertaining things to do — like watch paint dry.”
• As of the latest reports, President Trump had not acknowledged the sketch on Truth Social.