Saturday Night Live turned what started as a touching Mother’s Day tribute into total chaos, thanks to a surprise entrance from Donald Trump, a drunken Jeanine Pirro, and a boozed-up Pete Hegseth.
The cold open began innocently enough. Cast members Kenan Thompson, Bowen Yang, and Marcello Hernandez stood beside women who appeared to be their moms, singing a warm, sentimental song in honor of Mother’s Day.
Then James Austin Johnson’s Trump stormed in and hijacked the whole thing.
“What the hell am I doing here, huh? There’s a new pope from Chicago,” he announced, referencing a fictional Pope Leo XIV.
Without missing a beat, he added, “I’ll send JD back to do his thing,” if the pope doesn’t do “what we want,” name-dropping J.D. Vance like a political hitman.
From there, it only got wilder.
Trump proudly introduced his latest political stunt: appointing former Fox News loudmouth Jeanine Pirro as U.S. attorney in D.C.
“Come on out Jeanine, come on,” he called, and Cecily Strong’s Pirro staggered onstage, cocktail glass in hand.
Strong’s version of Pirro was as over-the-top as ever, delivering a scorched-earth line without flinching:
“I’m so proud to be part of this group full of Russian assets, booze hounds and people famous for the little baby animals they’ve killed.”
Enter Pete Hegseth, played by Colin Jost—clean-cut at first, but not for long. Pirro immediately spit red wine all over him, keeping with SNL’s long-running tradition of soaking Jost during Pirro skits.
Trying to stay composed, Hegseth said,
“I promised I would never have a bottle touch my lips,” before popping the cap and downing a mystery liquor like it was water.
By the end, what began as a tribute to moms became a circus of ego, alcohol, and absurdity. Trump ranted, Pirro stumbled, Hegseth gave in—and SNL didn’t let anyone off the hook.
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