For the first time in several weeks, Saturday Night Live doesn’t kick off with a political press conference sketch. Instead, we open on a middle-class family on their way to see their grandmother. Stopping at a filling station, they’re forced to leave one of their kids behind due to exorbitant gas prices. The reason costs are soaring? Simple: “The Epstein Files.”
Enter Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson) to break things down: “It’s called butterfly effect, right? Epstein was first domino … bing bing bong … WAR.” As to the stock market, he puts it in terms the Harry Styles fans in attendance can understand: “It’s going one direction: down!”
