{"id":42336,"date":"2026-04-05T23:57:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T23:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=42336"},"modified":"2026-04-05T23:57:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T23:57:59","slug":"saturday-night-live-audience-cheers-trump-assassination-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=42336","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Saturday Night Live&#8217; Audience Cheers Trump Assassination Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><i>Saturday Night Live<\/i>\u00a0star Michael Che got raving applause from the studio audience this weekend after he cracked a ghastly joke about President Donald Trump during the \u201cWeekend Update\u201d segment of the show on the day before Easter.<\/p>\n<p>The comedian started his bit saying he thinks \u201cthat\u2019s cool that the president is going to the theater\u201d on the heels of Trump\u2019s attendance at the musical <i>Chicago<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2026\/04\/01\/trump-first-lady-applauded-at-opening-night-of-chicago-at-the-kennedy-center\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">performed<\/a> last Wednesday at the Trump John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.<\/p>\n<p>But after saying he thinks it\u2019s cool, Che added, \u201cWhat\u2019s the worst that could happen?\u201d as the in studio crowd cheered and clapped.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#2040841839100477941\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPostMillennial\/status\/2040841839100477941\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Che\u2019s wisecrack stemmed from an allusion to the murder of our 16th President, Republican Abe Lincoln, who went to Ford\u2019s Theater to take in a play in April of 1865 only to be shot in the head from behind by a Democrat assassin. Clearly, Che was riffing off Lincoln\u2019s assassination after he went to the theater.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\">For his part, Che\u2019s cohost, Colin Jost, ripped the President for threatening the terror-exporting Mullahs of Iran.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"\/>\n<p>Jost noted that the president warned Iran that unless they stop resisting and go ahead and ope the Straits of Hormuz, he will \u201cbring them back to the stone age where they belong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In reply to Trump\u2019s warnings to the radical, oppressive Mullahs, Jost intoned, \u201cIn the spirit of Easter, let me just say: Jesus Christ!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#2040657230849040593\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nbcsnl\/status\/2040657230849040593\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Apparently Jost is OK with the Iranian regime murdering thousands of innocent Iranians every year, imprisoning political opponents, and raping and murdering women for not being Islamic enough.<\/p>\n<p><i>Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston<\/a>, Truth Social <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@WarnerToddHuston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@WarnerToddHuston<\/a>, or at X\/Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WTHuston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@WTHuston<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2026\/04\/05\/video-saturday-night-live-audience-cheers-trump-assassination-joke\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday Night Live\u00a0star Michael Che got raving applause from the studio audience this weekend after he cracked a ghastly joke about President Donald Trump during the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}