Saturday Night Live‘s Donald Trump repeatedly fell asleep during a press conference about his and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth‘s controversial, lethal strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean.
As a loud and mean Hegseth (Colin Jost) berated reporters asking about allegations that he committed a war crime, he turned to Trump (James Austin Johnson) for support. But the 79-year-old president—as he has been known to do lately—was dozing off in the corner, have a good dream about New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.
“Stop, Mamdani. You can freeze my rent anytime,” the president said suggestively before coming to.
“I wasn’t sleeping,” he insisted. “I was very much awake. Now, someone tell me where am I, who am I, and what year might it be.”
“Good one, Mr. President,” Hegseth chuckled, trying to play it off. “Everything you do that’s weird is a joke. I was just telling everyone here that I have your full support.”
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While Trump agreed, he said so while pushing Hegseth off the podium, saying later that if anything Hegseth did hurt him, he wouldn’t hesitate to “throw him under one of Mamdani’s free buses.”
Trump then took a question about how polls show more and more of his supporters are blaming him for the affordability crisis. “What’s your message to them?” the reporter (Tommy Brennan) asked.
But Trump, again, was caught snoring away.
Hegseth, jumping in to salvage the situation, said, “We’ve got to get him to another MRI before he wakes up!”
From Rolling Stone US
