{"id":239596,"date":"2026-01-18T12:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T12:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/239596\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T12:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T12:25:07","slug":"snl-weekend-update-calls-out-psycho-trump-for-peace-prize-snag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/239596\/","title":{"rendered":"‘SNL’ Weekend Update Calls Out ‘Psycho’ Trump for Peace Prize Snag"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSaturday Night Live<\/a>\u2018s Weekend Update trashed Donald Trump<\/a>\u2018s acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize medal that he didn\u2019t win, as well as his foreign policy that doesn\u2019t align with \u201cAmerica First.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTrump this week was given the medal by Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Machado, who reportedly has been angling for Trump\u2019s support to be successor to President Nicolas Maduro following his capture by U.S. forces. Trump, who keeps claiming he has ended eight wars, had lobbied heavily for<\/a> the award, but had to settle for the \u201cFIFA Peace Prize,\u201d which his pal, Gianni Infantino, hurriedly created<\/a> after Trump lost out to Machado. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhat kind of psycho would actually accept someone else\u2019s Nobel Peace Prize? She just won it,\u201d co-anchor Michael Che<\/a> said. \u201cIt\u2019s like if someone says help yourself to anything in the kitchen and you bang his wife.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs it turns out, one person who did accept<\/a> another\u2019s medal was Nazi minister of propaganda Joseph Goebbels.<\/p>\n

\n\tChe then referenced Machado\u2019s apparent motivation for gifting the medal. \u201cIf that bribe actually worked, I bet Trump\u2019s about to get a whole bunch of Grammys,\u201d he joked as a photo of imprisoned music mogul Diddy showed on screen.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso in the segment, Colin Jost<\/a> took Trump to task over his foreign policy, like the capture of Maduro in Caracas, with the country\u2019s oil reserves being a motivating factor. Trump has also threatened to invade Greenland, and reportedly has been considering military action in Iran.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cHe promised us \u2018America First,\u2019 yet it\u2019s only our one-year anniversary and he\u2019s already opening up our relationship to other countries,\u201d Jost joked. \u201cThis week, Trump declared himself the \u2018acting president of Venezuela.\u2019 By next week he\u2019ll be the \u2018interim Ayatollah of Iran\u2019, and then onto his ultimate goal: \u2018head reindeer of Greenland.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIn fact,\u201d Jost continued, \u201ca congressman has introduced a bill to make Greenland the 51st state. Meanwhile, Puerto Rico\u2019s like, \u2018Wow, okay?!’\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday Night Live\u2018s Weekend Update trashed Donald Trump\u2018s acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize medal that he didn\u2019t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[24191,65,156,17758,32103,111,139,69,8804,45415,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-239596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-colin-jost","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-late-night-tv","12":"tag-michael-che","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nz","16":"tag-saturday-night-live","17":"tag-snl","18":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}