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Saturday Night Live opened its latest episode with a familiar cold open parodying President Donald Trump, but critics said the show’s usual antics and “lighthearted” jabs were a “gigantic failure to read the room” given a deadly DHS shooting that occurred just hours before the broadcast.

“Sorry to be a buzzkill SNL, but maybe don’t do a lighthearted Trump cold open on the same day his goon squad murdered an American citizen in broad daylight,” wrote Democratic strategist Matt McDermott Saturday night in a social media post on X to their more than 91,000 followers. “It’s not funny anymore – people are dying.”

Earlier on Saturday, 37-year-old American citizen Alex Pretti was pepper sprayed, wrestled to the ground, beaten and fatally shot by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The incident sparked outrage nationwide, including from at least one Republican senator, with critics demanding accountability for the DHS killing....

Donald Trump's character on Saturday Night Live slurred his way through a speech that mentioned Jeffrey Epstein and cognitive tests, as well as revealed why he added his name to the Kennedy Center for performing arts.

Addressing the nation, James Austin Johnson's Trump character discussed upcoming plans to add his name to additional buildings. After unveiling the "Trump Washington Monument," he said, "People are saying, 'Sir, why are you putting your names on so many buildings?"

Answering his own question, he said, "Because we had to take it off of so many files... Epstein... redacted."...

Donald Trump's character on Saturday Night Live was tricked into admitting his deep ties to the now-deceased child sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein are legitimate.

Giving interviews with the press aboard Air Force 1, James Austin Johnson's Trump character notes that he is on both Adderall and Ambien. He is asked about numerous subjects, and at one point shows a video of his administration shooting down Santa Claus from the sky as if he were a narco terrorist.

When asked about the latest drop of Trump-Epstein photos, the president says the whole story is just a Democratic hoax....

Donald Trump's character made a surprise appearance on Saturday Night Live, where he crashed a Pete Hegseth press conference and was awoken from a dream about New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.

After Hegseth's character gave a presser in which he mocked the "nerds" and "dorks" in the media while clamoring for an alcoholic beverage, James Austin Johnson's Trump character appears on screen while sleeping. In his dreams, he says, "Stop, Mamdani. You can freeze my rent any time."

He then wakes up and says, "I wasn't sleeping. I'm very much awake. Now someone quickly tell me where am I, who am I, and what year it might it be."...

Donald Trump's character on Saturday Night Live crashed a press conference and sold Epstein files for $800 each.

James Austin Johnson's Trump character, who last week stood indifferent as a man collapsed in his the Oval Office, drawing attention to a widely mocked moment, this week interrupted a presser of a character portraying White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt to say he's hiding "almost nothing."

"I am hiding almost nothing - just enough to make it extremely suspicious," Trump says in response to a question from a reporter....

Donald Trump's character on Saturday Night Live stood indifferent as a man collapsed in his the Oval Office, drawing attention to a widely mocked moment.

After an introduction by characters including those portraying Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Oz, a man collapses behind them and the camera slowly pans to James Austin Johnson's Trump character. Last week, SNL's Trump mused jokingly about the president's recent MRI.

"Oh hi, didn't see you there, someone was dying in my office," Trump says when the camera fully reaches him. He then notes that he stood there and stared at the emergency "like a sociopath."...