{"id":64751,"date":"2026-05-10T09:43:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T09:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/64751\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T09:43:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T09:43:25","slug":"snl-cold-open-brett-kavanaugh-shares-big-trump-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/64751\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;SNL&#8217; Cold Open: Brett Kavanaugh Shares Big Trump Secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"auto-tag_saturday-night-live\" href=\"http:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/t\/saturday-night-live\/\" data-tag=\"saturday-night-live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Saturday Night Live<\/a> guest host <a id=\"auto-tag_matt-damon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/matt-damon\/\" data-tag=\"matt-damon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Matt Damon<\/a> reprised <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VRJecfRxbr8&amp;pp=ygUec25sIG1hdHQgZGFtb24gYnJldHQga2F2YW5hdWdo\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">his role as<\/a> Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh, who reveals to drinking buddies Pete Hegseth and Kash Patel what <a id=\"auto-tag_donald-trump\" href=\"http:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/t\/donald-trump\/\" data-tag=\"donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2018s political future will look like.<\/p>\n<p>Kavanaugh and Hegseth (<a id=\"auto-tag_colin-jost\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/colin-jost\/\" data-tag=\"colin-jost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Colin Jost<\/a>) first boast about they\u2019ve been up to, like ending abortion and starting a war. That prompts Kavanaugh to talk about the \u201creal\u201d war: \u201cmale loneliness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI used to have all my buddies to hang out with\u2026 I just wish there were more people in this administration who could really hang,\u201d he laments, as Patel (<a id=\"auto-tag_aziz-ansari\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/aziz-ansari\/\" data-tag=\"aziz-ansari\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Aziz Ansari<\/a>) enters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoes this bar take Kash?!\u201d the FBI director exclaims, before unveiling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/2026\/05\/kash-patel-fbi-bourbon\/687066\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one of the bottles<\/a> of bourbon engraved with his name.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI bring my own alcohol to bars because sometimes people think I\u2019m a kid with a fake ID. They say, \u2018Nobody would make this face in official photos,\u2019\u201d he says, mocking Patel\u2019s wide-eyed expression.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are all living the American Dream,\u201d he tells his buddies. \u201cI am the first person in my family to go to college\u2014parties, many years after graduating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A Secretary of War, a Supreme Court Justice, and an FBI Director walk into a bar <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yGACw2vf4e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/yGACw2vf4e<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Love Music?<\/p>\n<p class=\"observer-desc mb-2\"> Get your daily dose of everything happening in Australian\/New Zealand music and globally.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/spinner.gif\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Saturday Night Live (@nbcsnl) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nbcsnl\/status\/2053321273439084859?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">May 10, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Kavanaugh asks if Patel really is paranoid enough to make FBI staffers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ms.now\/news\/kash-patel-ordered-polygraphs-of-more-than-two-dozen-members-of-his-team-sources-tell-ms-now\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">take polygraph tests<\/a>, Patel denies it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, I told them to make a graph of everyone in the FBI who\u2019s poly. My girlfriend wants to open up our relationship!\u201d he says, as they exchange high-fives. \u201cYeah, she says she wants to bring other guys into the bedroom and for me to stay in the living room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kavanaugh then takes the opportunity to confide something \u201ctop secret\u201d in his pals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to let Trump do a third term,\u201d he says, as Hegseth and Patel lose their minds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought that was unconstitutional?\u201d the Defense secretary asks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was,\u201d Kavanaugh replies, \u201cuntil Trump found the original Constitution and at the end of it wrote, \u2018Sike!\u2019 We\u2019re going to live forever!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-news\/snl-matt-damon-brett-kavanaugh-trump-secret-hegseth-patel-1235560241\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Rolling Stone US<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday Night Live guest host Matt Damon reprised his role as Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh, who reveals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[120],"tags":[33444,9217,12,4376,37949,18,9257,9219],"class_list":["post-64751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pete-hegseth","tag-aziz-ansari","tag-colin-jost","tag-donald-trump","tag-late-night-tv","tag-matt-damon","tag-pete-hegseth","tag-saturday-night-live","tag-snl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116549635497257207","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}