{"id":2386,"date":"2026-03-08T14:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T14:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/2386\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T14:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T14:16:08","slug":"snl-weekend-update-dances-on-kristi-noems-political-grave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/2386\/","title":{"rendered":"‘SNL’ Weekend Update Dances on Kristi Noem’s Political Grave"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSaturday Night Live\u2018s Weekend Update<\/a> celebrated Kristi Noem<\/a>\u2018s firing as<\/a> Homeland Security secretary.<\/p>\n

\n\tCo-anchor Colin Jost<\/a> listed several of the controversies that drew negative attention to the department and the Trump administration. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cName one to the twenty things she did wrong,\u201d he joked. \u201cWas it calling the innocent guy they shot a domestic terrorist? Was it spending $220 million of taxpayer money on an ad campaign where she dressed up like Jesse from Toy Story?\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tNoem was shown on horseback in the DHS ad campaign.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cShe\u2019s so happy riding the horse in this,\u201d Jost said. \u201cI bet his name is Corey Lewandowski.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tLewandowski, Noem\u2019s aide at DHS and her rumored lover, also is no longer at the department.<\/p>\n

\n\tJost added that he felt bad for Noem, in a way.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cImagine being singled out as the worst member of Trump\u2019s cabinet. That\u2019s like someone coming up to you at a party and saying, \u2018We think you should leave. You\u2019re making Diddy uncomfortable,’\u201d he joked.<\/p>\n

\n\tMichael Che<\/a> then addressed Noem\u2019s new role that Trump gave her: Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas. That, he joked, \u201cis a brand-new department located on a farm upstate.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWeeknd Update also addressed the week-old war in Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cPresident Trump said that he should be involved in choosing Iran\u2019s next supreme leader. So, congrats to new supreme leader Ayatollah Jared Kushnari,\u201d Che joked of the president\u2019s son-in-law and Middle East negotiator.<\/p>\n

\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n

\n\tChe was also critical of the CIA\u2019s reported<\/a> arming of anti-regime militias in Iran to help topple it.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHey, worked great for Afghanistan,\u201d he said, as a photo of Osama bin Laden showed on screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday Night Live\u2018s Weekend Update celebrated Kristi Noem\u2018s firing as Homeland Security secretary. Co-anchor Colin Jost listed several…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2189,38,8,247,1831,2215,9,7,2216],"class_list":{"0":"post-2386","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-stories","8":"tag-colin-jost","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-kristi-noem","12":"tag-late-night-tv","13":"tag-michael-che","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-top-stories","16":"tag-weekend-update"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/116193983433561955","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}