“Saturday Night Live” took on the Department of Defense group text scandal in its cold open with host Mikey Madison.
Madison, a recent Oscar winner for “Anora,” played a teenage girl gossiping with her friends (Ego Nwodim and Sarah Sherman) about high school and crushes in a group chat infiltrated by U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, played by Andrew Dismukes.
“FYI, green light on Yemen raid. Rockets went airborne 15 minutes ago,” he said. “Who’s ready to glass some Houthi rebels? Flag emoji, flag emoji, flag emoji, fire emoji, eggplant.”
The White House has been under fire this week after the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey
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