{"id":907004,"date":"2026-09-27T04:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T04:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/907004\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T04:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T04:48:09","slug":"snl-mamdani-and-trump-hang-out-natalie-harp-goes-obsession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/907004\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;SNL&#8217;: Mamdani and Trump Hang Out, Natalie Harp Goes &#8216;Obsession&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSeason 52 of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/saturday-night-live\/\" id=\"auto-tag_saturday-night-live\" data-tag=\"saturday-night-live\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday Night Live<\/a>\u201d opened with its usual cold open, and it involved two unlikely political BFFs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tRamy Youssef stopped by to play New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, whose office was visited by James Austin Johnson\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/donald-trump\/\" id=\"auto-tag_donald-trump\" data-tag=\"donald-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cFor some reason that no one can figure out, I really, really like you,\u201d Trump said to Mamdani.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe pair discussed the storm currently slamming the East Coast, the Knicks\u2019 championship, this week\u2019s U.N. meeting in NYC and Trump\u2019s recent hosting of China President Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSoon enough, their discussion was interrupted by Natalie Harp, Trump\u2019s much-discussed executive assistant. Played by Ashley Padilla, Harp evoked \u201cObsession\u201d character Nikki.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tDespite the storm, \u201cI ran here from D.C., \u2018Weapons\u2019 style,\u201d Harp said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cShe\u2019s like the girl from \u2018Obsession\u2019 but blond,\u201d Trump quipped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tHarp ended the sketch by pulling Mamdani aside and threatening him, saying, \u201cIf you hurt him, I will end you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tJalen Brunson is hosting the season premiere with Katseye as the musical guest. The episode is also the debut of new cast members Saidah Belo-Osagie and Grace Reiter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWatch the full sketch below.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Season 52 of \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d opened with its usual cold open, and it involved two unlikely political&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":907005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,2490,134,33892,46340,427],"class_list":["post-907004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-donald-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-saturday-night-live","tag-snl","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}