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NBC/SNL Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update rubbed in the GOP’s midterm losses and knocked Donald Trump‘s promotion of Stephen Miller as his next chief of staff.
Tuesday’s midterms will leave Trump without Republican majorities in either chamber of Congress for the next two years. The president, reacting to his party’s disastrous showing, told reporters this week that he “tried hard” and “left it all on the field.”
“And to continue the football analogy: failed concussion protocol,” Colin Jost joked.
Trump has tried to avoid taking responsibility for the midterm results, instead blaming candidate quality.
“And I’m surprised that Trump couldn’t find any new, young talent, because he used to have a guy for that,” Jost joked while showing a photo of him and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Weekend Update with Colin Jost and Michael Che! pic.twitter.com/3J3Hpczgb0
— Saturday Night Live (@nbcsnl) November 8, 2026
Jost added that Trump, who has been adding more and more gold to the Oval Office and has taken much more of an interest in interior decorating compared to his first term, can spend his lame duck period “doing what he does best: bejazzling the White House.”
Co-anchor Michael Che then turned how Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has said he will not look to be the GOP leader in the new Congress. Instead, he will “return to his previous job of baking cookies in a tree,” Che joked, with Johnson’s face superimposed on the body of a Keebler elf.
Jost, addressing how Trump on Friday replaced Susie Wiles with Miller as chief of staff, was critical.
