Saturday Night Live came out swinging this weekend, using its Weekend Update segment to skewer Trump's lightning-fast China visit and throw shade at FBI Director Kash Patel.
The trip was absurd: Trump flew 14,000 miles to Beijing to meet with President Xi Jinping—except he wasn't actually greeted by Xi. Instead, Vice President Han Zheng showed up at the airport. "President Trump arrived in China, but instead of Xi Jinping, he was greeted by the country's vice president, Han Zheng—or as Trump called him, Xi Jinping," Colin Jost quipped.
Trump was only on the ground for 48 hours. Jost joked that historians were already calling the entire trip "could've been an email."
Co-anchor Michael Che piled on, describing how Chinese schoolchildren were arranged at the Great Hall of the People to cheer Trump's arrival. "They shouted, 'It's the man from the hats we make!'" Che riffed, a callback to Trump's manufacturing claims. He also zinged that Trump brought his second-oldest son Eric along as "a gift."
The sharpest moment came when discussing Cuba's recent power grid collapse and blackouts. Jost pivoted: "We sent the CIA director because the FBI guy is also experiencing massive blackouts." The photo of Patel appeared on screen as the audience erupted—a jab at the FBI director's reportedly excessive drinking habits.
Jost wrapped up by mocking Trump's new nickname for Democrats: "Dumocrats." Che wasn't impressed. "That's not creative," he said flatly.
