Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update criticized the Trump administration’s response to the widespread grounding of flights and examined questions about what the president knew regarding ousted Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s reported affair with an alleged Chinese spy.
“The most unsettling part of all these flightgroundings was the messaging from the normally dependable Trump administration,” Colin Jost said. “First, they said it was a ‘telecommunications outage, as of now.’ Why add ‘as of now’? No one wants to hear: ‘Your child is safe, as of now.’”
“Then, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said the whole situation was the result of a contractor upgrading copper wire to fiber-optic cable,” Jost joked. “So, one guy switched out one wire and took out all planes? I think that’s literally a scene from the movie, ‘Airplane!’”
Co-anchor Michael Che turned to Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, who told reporters in the early stages of the incident that it was not a 9/11-type situation.
“Which he knew, because Rudy Giuliani didn’t see his shadow,” Che joked.
Jost then addressed the reported affairs involving ousted Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, including relationships with subordinates and a suspected Chinese spy. The news contributed to a decline in Nvidia’s stock, as the company’s A.I. chips remain a significant part of the U.S. economy.
“Jensen Huang had a midlife crisis so severe that you might lose your house in his divorce,” Jost joked.
Jost also addressed the uncertainty over what Donald Trump knew about Huang potentially being taken advantage of and when he knew it.
“Insiders are also saying that despite Trump’s claim that he did not know about the Nvidia CEO’s relationship with a Chinese spy, he was briefed about it during a trip to China in May,” Jost said. “So this concludes yet another game of ‘Dementia or Lying?’”
“Turns out it’s a trick question,” he added. “Because it’s always both.”
Weekend Update also covered the surprising Senate win in Mississippi by Democrat Scott Colom over incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith.
“Or, as it was reported in Mississippi: ‘Black Man Savagely Beats White Woman,’” Che joked.
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