Colin Jost’s Pete Hegseth returned to Saturday Night Live this week to kick off the Melissa McCarthy-hosted episode, featuring Dane Cook jokes, 6-7, and the ongoing conflict with Venezuela.
The Defense Secretary sauntered into the White House press room like a WWE superstar, crushing cans and berating journalists with insults like a particularly annoying middle school bully as he answered questions about what he dubbed “Operation Kill Everybody.”
“As you probably read in some gay newspaper, we’re now at war with Venezuela,” the government leader told the press pool.
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Hegseth was joined by “reporter” Matt Gaetz (Sarah Squirm) and “high-energy Alpha” President Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson), with the latter nodding off in the corner while dreaming about NYC Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani.
