The latest episode of Saturday Night Live featured James Austin Johnson reprising his impression of Donald Trump in the Cold Open sketch, portraying the former president signing a series of executive orders. The segment focused on Trump's hypothetical first 100 days back in office.
Johnson's portrayal of Trump reflected on the perceived accomplishments of this early period, joking that it felt longer than 100 days. The sketch presented a series of orders ranging from parody actions to real actions taken by the former president.
Among the mocked executive orders was one banning paper straws and another defunding PBS. The skit also depicted a fictional order to reduce the number of interracial couples shown in television commercials, with the character expressing bewilderment about their relationships.
A central part of the sketch involved a parody order addressing age-gap relationships. Mikey Day, playing White House aide Stephen Miller, introduced an order to make it socially acceptable for older men to date much younger women.
Johnson's Trump referred to this as "The Belichick Law," referencing football coach Bill Belichick and his girlfriend Jordon Hudson, who have a significant age difference. The sketch joked about the dynamic, stating it would "make girlfriends young again."
The sketch also showed Marcello Hernández as Secretary of State Marco Rubio presenting a fictional order preventing Hispanic babies from getting their ears pierced, which Trump attributed to Rubio despite denials. Other parody orders included pardoning J.K. Rowling and outlawing ghosts.
The segment concluded with an order to rename the word "recession."
"Recession will now be called recess," the Trump character said in the sketch. "So, America, get ready for a historically long recess."
