Saturday Night Live - Season 51

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Please, please, please leave Marcello Hernández out of this. After getting called out by Sabrina Carpenter for an “evil and disgusting” pro-ICE video using her song “Juno,” the White House is once again trying to get the Gen-Z signifiers on its side. A new video posted December 5 remixes Carpenter’s Saturday Night Live promo shoot with Hernández. It takes Carpenter saying, “I think I might need to arrest someone for being too hot,” and replaces “too hot” with a robovoice saying “illegal.” Hernández playfully volunteers, and then the whole thing devolves into a hacky automated supercut of ICE and Border Patrol ops set to Gucci Mane’s “I Get the Bag.” Sergei Eisenstein it ain’t. (Will Gucci Mane join the hordes of artists demanding the Trump administration keep away from their songs? Seems somewhat unlikely, given Mane’s 2014 song “Donald Trump.” The president and the rapper also retained the same defense attorney at one point: so-called “Billion Dollar Lawyer” Drew Findling.)

The last video the White House did with Carpenter’s IP was set to “Juno,” with Sabrina saying, “Have you ever tried this one?” over and over as ICE agents tackled people to the ground. When Carpenter decried the vid, the White House responded with a “Manchild” reference. “Anyone who would defend these sick monsters must be stupid,” spokesperson Abigail Jackson told Axios in a statement. “Or is it slow?” But the video did get taken down. So don’t mess with Sabrina, or she’ll break out the karate chops.

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