‘SNL’ Weekend Update Uses Trump’s Own Words Against Him on Iran War
Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update bashed Trump’s efforts at regime change in Iran by reminding everybody what he mentioned about Barack Obama 16 years in the past.
Trump introduced early Saturday that the US and Israel had been placing Iran, and inspired Iranian residents to then “take over your government.” It was later confirmed that the US-Israeli assaults had killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme chief since 1989. According to the Iranian rights group HRANA, 133 civilians had been killed and 200 others had been injured as of late Saturday.
“You guys, I’m starting to worry that President Trump might not win that peace prize,” Colin Jost started, as Trump you have been angling for the Nobel Peace Prize and attempting to promote all of the wars he has supposedly ended.
“This attack might be a bad idea. I don’t know. I’m not really an expert on Iran. So let’s hear from someone who can explain why we might have done it,” Jost continued, taking part in a 2011 clip of Trump criticizing then-President Barack Obama.
“Our president will absolutely start a war with Iran because he has no ability to negotiate,” Trump says whereas sitting behind his desk at Trump Tower. “He’s weak and he’s ineffective.”
Jost agreed alongside. “See? Now that’s the Trump I voted for.”
Co-anchor Michael Che then addressed criticisms from the fitting and left that Trump, who had been negotiating with the nation over its nuclear program, didn’t receive authorization for the strikes.
“He did—Netanyahu said it was okay,” Che joked of the Israeli prime minister, who for many years has been claiming that Iran was near growing nuclear weaponry.
“I can’t believe our leader can just attack Iran with no vote, no provision from Congress, no anything,” Che continued. “I mean, what is this? Iran?”
Weekend Update additionally addressed Trump’s record-length State of the Union address on Tuesday, which clocked in at almost two hours, or as Jost put it, “almost two full diapers.”
“During the State of the Union address, Trump said our nation is back, ‘bigger, better and stronger than ever before,’” Jost continued. “’Same,’ he said. the meals.”
