Mikey Madison has made her “Saturday Night Live” hosting debut! On Saturday March 29, the Oscar winner hosted the show for the first time where she was joined by Morgan Wallen as musical guest. The actress appeared in the cold open which spoofed the White House’s signal chat scandal after officials from President Trump’s administration accidentally added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic to their group chat discussing plans to attack Houthi rebels in Yemen. In the skit, Madison along with cast members Ego Nwodim and Sarah Sherman played teenage girls who get added to a similar chat discussing attack plans by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who was played by Andrew Dismukes.
In the sketch comedy show's first episode back since the Signal scandal – which involved top Trump administration officials sharing attack plans in a Signal chat that included journalist Jeffrey Goldberg – the cast spared no time in poking fun at the incident.
"FYI - Green light on Yemen raid!" Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, played by "SNL" cast member Andrew Dismukes, sent to a Signal chat shared with several teenage girls. "Tomahawks airborne 15 minutes ago. Who's ready to glass some Houthi rebels? 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🔥🍆"
"Who is this?" One of the teenage girls, played by Sarah Sherman responded.
Another teenage girl, played by host and "Anora" star Mikey Madison, responded to Hegseth, "Uhm, do we know you, bro? This is Jenabelle."
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"Oh nice, Jenabelle from Defense, right?" Dismukes as Hegseth responded.
A third teenage girl in the chat, played by cast member Ego Nwodim, told the secretary he had the wrong group chat.
"Lolololol. Imagine if that actually happened?" Dismukes as Hegseth responded. "Hey, while I got everyone. Sending an updated PDF with all the locations for our nuclear submarines."
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Vice President JD Vance, played by Bowen Yang, then joined the chat from Greenland, an island territory controlled by Denmark that Trump says he intends to annex.
"Nobody knows why I'm here. Especially me," Yang as Vance puts into the chat. "But praise Trump, our work here is mysterious and important."
