{"id":204531,"date":"2025-10-06T06:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T06:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/204531\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T06:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T06:29:09","slug":"white-house-slams-snl-after-cold-open-targets-trump-and-brendan-carr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/204531\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Slams &#8216;SNL&#8217; After Cold Open Targets Trump and Brendan Carr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tA White House rep has responded to the first cold open 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 season 51, which targeted <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> and FCC chair <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/brendan-carr\/\" id=\"auto-tag_brendan-carr\" data-tag=\"brendan-carr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brendan Carr<\/a> for their recent clampdown on late-night TV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cReacting to this would require me to waste my time watching it,\u201d White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/white-house-reacts-to-snl-mocking-trump-cold-open-late-night-war-11824577?taid=68e2c49daced5600015d461e&amp;utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+New+Content+%28Feed%29&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=twitter\">wrote to Entertainment Weekly<\/a> via email. \u201cAnd like the millions of Americans who have tuned out from \u2018SNL,\u2019 I have more entertaining things to do \u2014 like watch paint dry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/tv\/news\/trump-threatens-snl-fcc-attack-1236540426\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Season 51\u2019s first cold open<\/a> saw James Austin Johnson\u2019s Trump interrupting Colin Jost\u2019s Pete Hegseth impression to make sure \u201cSNL\u201d wouldn\u2019t \u201cdo anything to mean about me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tJohnson\u2019s Trump was quick to talk down on the prolific late-night sketch show. Making reference to this summer\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/lists\/snl-season-51-cast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">cast rework<\/a>, he said, \u201c\u2018SNL\u2019 51 off to a rough start: 17 new cast members and they got the \u2018Update\u2019 guy doing the open.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tHe then warned that if \u201cSNL\u201d got out of hand, they would have to face the wrath of \u201cmy attack dog at the FCC, Brandon Carr.\u201d Mikey Day as Carr then danced into frame to the tune of Rockwell\u2019s \u201cSomebody\u2019s Watching Me\u201d and corrected Johnson\u2019s Trump about the pronunciation of his name.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s actually Brendan, sir,\u201d said the phony Carr. Johnson\u2019s Trump replied, \u201cIt\u2019s crazy you think I care. Bye!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tEnding with a warning, Trump said, \u201cRemember: Daddy\u2019s watching.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tJohnson has been the go-to Trump impersonator on \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d since he joined the cast in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tCheck out the entire cold open below.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A White House rep has responded to the first cold open of \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d season 51, which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[17105,12,88,12015],"class_list":{"0":"post-204531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-brendan-carr","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-saturday-night-live"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}