To no one’s surprise, Saturday Night Live kicks off its Thanksgiving episode by taking aim at president Donald Trump by way of his late associate, billionaire sex trafficker Jeffery Epstein, as revealed in the deluge of Epstein emails released by Congress earlier this week. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt (Ashley Padilla) tries to get ahead of reporters’ questions by pretending “there was no news this week, nothing happening with the president, no weird information was revealed, no one had any accusations that rhymed with ‘edophile’.”
She flails around until Trump (James Austin Johnson) takes her place at the podium. He tries to spin things by claiming he barely knew Epstein (“As evidenced by the thousands of pictures of us together dancing and grinding our teeth at various parties, always leering and pointing at something just off camera – probably a book we’re excited to read”), parroting former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly’s jaw-dropping take that Epstein wasn’t a pedophile (“Terrific thing to just say out of nowhere, great job, Megyn”), and vowing to release all of the files to paying customers (“I just ordered the one that says ‘Does Putin have the photo of Trump blowing Bubba’, whatever the hell that means”).
