Elon Musk wasn’t the slightest bit impressed by this weekend’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ cold open sketch that parodied the Oval Office meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. President Donald Trump.
Last Friday, Zelenskyy met Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance to further discuss their Mineral Resources Agreement. The televised meeting between the men quickly turned heated, however, and Zelenskyy left the White House without a finalized deal.
SNL opened its 3/2 show with a parody sketch of the meeting. Mikey Day (Zelenskyy), James Austin Johnson (Trump) and Bowen Yang (Vance) opened the show together before SNL icon Mike Myers showed up mid-sketch posing as Elon Musk.
Myers’ version of Musk brought out a chainsaw and asked Johnson why he’s “in my office…I’m the president now.”
Responding to a fan’s X post that has since been deleted, Elon Musk criticized the sketch with a five-word message, “Humor fails when it lies.”
There’s a widespread notion that Musk is the acting President of the United States behind the scenes, not Trump. Musk has emerged as one of Trump’s biggest allies, with the POTUS putting the Tesla CEO in charge of the newly-formed Department of Government Efficiency.
Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, becoming just the second POTUS to serve two nonconsecutive terms (Grover Cleveland was the first).
Elon Musk Donated $288 Million For Trump’s Presidential Run
Long before the 2024 United States presidential election, Elon Musk had donated to Democratic and Republican politicians. In the last election, Musk endorsed Democrat Andrew Yang for his presidential campaign.
But ever since Trump began his campaign for the 2024 election, Musk has emerged as one of the GOP’s main donors. According to the Washington Post, Musk donated $288 million to Trump’s 2024 campaign.
