"Let's say, if I had a drink for every Venezuelan we've killed, I'd really like that number of drinks," said Donald Trump's fog of warred Secretary of Defense/War tonight in Saturday Night Live's unusually high temperature cold open.

The show took aim at the Venezuelan boat strikes, the POTUS backing the U.S. Secretary of Defense, and Trump falling asleep during press conferences.

And in a broadly holiday-themed episode, SNL kicked off in a familiar place: a news conference with a member of the Trump administration. “Weekend Update” co-host Colin Jost played Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as if he were headlining a metal show,