SNL roasts Trump in season premiere, as Bad Bunny addresses Super Bowl criticism : NPR
Bad Bunny during Saturday Night Live Saturday October 4, 2025.
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President Trump and the defense secretary Pete Hegseth made it possible to make jokes during the first of season 51 of Saturday Night Live on Saturday, who presented the musician Bad Bunny as a host.
The show opened with a sketch mocking Hegseth, depicted by actor Colin Jost, ridicuing the address of the Secretary of Defense to Military Chefs in Quantico, Virginia last week.
“You don’t want to follow the rules? Hey, no problem. Do you know who will want your sick, twisted and big ass?” Do you have a registration sheet for ice in the corridor, check them.
Later in the sketch, Trump, played by James Austin Johnson, interrupted Hegseth and said: “I’m just there, keeping my eye on SNL, making sure they don’t do anything too much for me.”
“And they would better be careful, because I know the late evening television like the back of my hand,” he said, while holding a bruised hand-referring to photographs that have shown bruises on Trump’s hands. The White House said that bruises are the result of aspirin and shake hands frequently.
A few minutes later, he said that SNL should be on their “best behavior” or that they should respond to the president of the Federal Commission Commission (FCC) Brendan Carr. Then, Mikey Day while Carr went out on stage to the Rockwell song “Somebody’s Watching Me”.
Trump has criticized SNL several times in the past, suggesting that the FCC and the federal electoral commission “look at the cover of the program in 2019.
James Austin Johnson as Donald Trump when opening the “Pete Hegseth” (with Colin Jost as Pete Hegseth behind him) on Saturday October 4, 2025
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The musician of Superstar Bad Bunny, who was the guest host, addressed the criticisms that followed after being exploited by the NFL to make the headlines of the Super Bowl at halftime in February.
“I am very happy, and I think everyone is happy, even Fox News,” joked Bad Bunny. “But really, I’m very excited to do the Super Bowl, and I know that people around the world who love my music are also happy.”
The Puerto Rican superstar then continued in Spanish, saying: “Especially all Latinos and Latinas around the world, and here, in the United States, all those who worked to open doors.”
“It is more than a success for me, it is a success for all of us … It shows our imprint and our contribution to this country, that no one can ever take or erase,” he said before returning to English. “And if you don’t understand what I just said, you have four months to learn.”
Last month, the Puerto Rican musician said he decided not to include the United States in his next world tour in the event that there are immigration raids during his concerts.
Internal security secretary Kristi Noem, said in an interview with right podcaster Benny Johnson last week that ice agents would be “everywhere in this place” when they were asked if they would be at the Super Bowl.
Also in the opening sketch, Trump of Johnson said to Hegseth de Jost: “That every day is another wonderful secret … It was a quote from a poem that I wrote to a horrible man whom I never met before.” He cited lines that Trump would have written in a 50th anniversary card to the deceased offender Jeffrey Epstein – although the president denied having written in the card.
Later, in the “Update of the weekend” section of the show, hosted by Jost and Michael Che, there were jokes on the closure of the government, as well as Jibes on the mayor of New York, Eric Adams, ending his re-election offer.
NPR contacted the White House to comment on Sunday and received an automatic response by email blaming the Democrats for the government’s closure, according to the administration, which leads to a delay in the responses.
