Last week’s episode of Saturday Night Live was certainly one for the books, and the show’s writers know it. After musical guest Morgan Wallen made a splash by abruptly leaving the Studio 8H stage during the “good nights” portion of the show and posting to social media saying “Get me to God’s country,” the internet exploded with hot takes, memes, and even merch. Well, seeing as SNL’s job is to offer satire based on political and pop culture goings-on, Wallen’s controversial move became fodder for this week’s episode and resulted in a delightfully meta comedic experience. During the show’s cold open, James Austin Johnson’s Trump boasts that no one is safe from his tariffs including the Heard and McDonald Islands which is inhabited only by penguins and seals. Yes, this is real. But the President doesn’t have time for reason, he instead starts dreaming up what a McDonald’s Island might look like — as in an island inspired by the fast food juggernaut. Bringing out a cartoonishly large cardboard visual aid to help him depict his delusional fever dream, he imagines a Big Mac in a hula skirt surrounded by anthropomorphic chicken nuggets. All of this by itself is enough to elicit a good chuckle, but the show takes things a step further. “I want to go to there,” he says referencing SNL cast member Tina Fey’s iconic line in 30 Rock. He then croaks, “Get me to God’s country, right?” directly quoting Morgan Wallen’s social media post. The joke coaxed a huge response out of the audience, especially as James Austin Johnson seemingly drops character for a moment to pointedly ask, “Remember that? Wow.”
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But one joke wasn’t enough. In the latter half of the show during Weekend Update, co-anchor Colin Jost lays into Trump, skewering him for the newly imposed tariffs and the stock market fallout that followed them. “Just in the past two days, investors have lost over $6 Trillion,” Jost says. “Money is leaving the stock market faster than Morgan Wallen at good nights.”It seems like staying on that stage for just a few minutes longer could have saved Wallen from a few weeks of bad publicity, but it’s certainly helped keep SNL in the cultural conversation, and last night’s episode proves that the 50-year-old sketch show still has some bite left in it.
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