1 week Ago By William Vaillancourt
Saturday Night Live ‘s Weekend Update took on Donald Trump ‘s whiplash actions on tariffs , Elon Musk ‘s attempt to get the president to back down, and Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ‘s crusade against fluoride in public drinking water, among his other anti-science actions .
Co-anchor Colin Jost joked about one social media post Trump had made this week trying to soothe nerves as markets were falling. “Just hours before Trump paused the tariffs , he tried to calm investors by posting, ‘Be cool, everything is going to work out well,'” Jost recalled. “Be cool? This is the global economy.
It’s not like we got too high and we’re trying to get through dinner with our parents.” Michael Che riffed on a similar Trump comment. “Trump responded to the fallout from his tariffs saying sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something,” he said.
“Yeah, but this feels like we took a whole bottle of medicine with a glass of vodka and laid in a warm bath.” Che then noted how Musk last weekend made a personal appeal to Trump to back off on the tariffs. Trending Stories Team Trump Is Gaming Out How to Ship U.
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As for Kennedy Jr., who reportedly intends on instructing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to call for an end to cavity-preventing fluoride in public drinking water, Jost joked that the vaccine skeptic has an alternative: that the health agency “start recommending veneers for kids.”.
