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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Entertainment
Zach Vasquez

Saturday Night Live: Walton Goggins is a game host with underwhelming material

man wearing blazer smiles as he holds his hands together on stage
Walton Goggins on SNL. Photograph: NBC/Rosalind O'Connor/Getty Images

This week’s Saturday Night Live starts off the same as the last several Mother’s Day episodes have, with members of the cast – Bowen Yang, Marcello Hernández and Kenan Thompson – standing front and center with their mothers. Mercifully, we’re spared their treacly tribute when Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson) barges on stage and kicks them to the curb, proclaiming: “It’s me again, invading all aspects of your life.”

Trump rambles about Pope Leo XIV (“We hope he does what we want … otherwise I’ll have to send JD back to do his thing”), trade deals (“Question: can a country go out of business? We’re gonna find out”), and his newly appointed US attorney for Washington DC, Fox News personality Jeanine Pirro.

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