Trump and Pete Hegseth justify Iranian attack on ‘SNL’: ‘We are at war’

Clearly, the “Saturday Night Live” writing team had a lot of work to do on Saturday, as they opened the show with a sketch about President Trump’s early morning attack on Iran.

During the Cold Open on February 28, Trump (played by James Austin Johnson) gives a press conference about the military action.

“It’s me, Donald Trump, winner of the FIFA Peace Prize and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize,” he began. “Do you remember? I launched this attack after me and my peace council…we were bored of peace. A little pun, did you get it? As we all know, Iran is fifteen years or something like two weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon. So we had to act now, and we are at war.”

Trump soon brought out his Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (played by Colin Jost) to speak about the military action.

“They asked if anyone would volunteer for their half-baked operation, and I didn’t walk – I ran,” Jost-as-Hegseth said. “President Trump called me at two in the morning, and you know, I was awake, sober AF.”

Hegseth then admitted that “I don’t know what I’m doing.”

“Heated Rivalry” star Connor Storrie hosted the Feb. 28 show, with Mumford & Sons as musical guests. U.S. men’s hockey stars Quinn and Jack Hughes crashed Storrie’s monologue, as did U.S. women’s hockey stars Megan Keller and Hilary Knight. Hudson Williams, Storrie’s co-star in “Heated Rivalry,” later appeared in a sketch about ice skating.

Watch the cold open below.