Saturday Night Live returned with a cold open once again featuring Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson), this time boasting along with Vice President JD Vance and his cabinet members about his latest moves, furthering his presidential authoritarianism.

"Saturday Night Live" is back, kicking things off with a rapid-fire cold open catching up on the biggest headlines since the show has been gone.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump will be “talking about all of the great economic news,” including mortgage rates falling below 6%.

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Several Middle Eastern allies of the United States have urged the Trump administration to hold off on strikes against Iran for the government's deadly crackdown on protesters, according to an Arab diplomat familiar with the matter.

Donald Trump dashed the hopes of the hot favorite to succeed Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell to his face on live television. Kevin Hassett, director of the White House National Economic Council,

Trump's remarks come after Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, called Trump a "criminal" and accused him of encouraging protesters.

President Donald Trump met Thursday at the White House with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, whose political party is widely considered to have won 2024 elections rejected by then-President Nicolás Maduro before the United States captured him in an audacious military raid this month.

Clemency: President Trump issued more pardons this week, again rewarding allies and those who had funneled money to to his associates or donated to his political operation. Among the recipients was a woman who was convicted of fraud in 2024, after he commuted her sentence in an unrelated fraud in 2021. Read more ›