Elon Musk’s DOGE Vision Gets Roasted: SNL Delivers Fiery Punchline

An SNL sketch features James Austin Johnson’s Donald Trump humorously introducing his cabinet picks to Dana Carvey’s Joe Biden, roasting the selections along the way.

By Sheenu Gupta On Nov 18, 2024 Share with new partner:

During Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update segment, the hosts took aim at Elon Musk, ridiculing his proposal for a so-called Department of Government Efficiency. They highlighted the absurdity of Musk inviting people to work more than 80 hours per week without pay, framing the idea as both exploitative and tone-deaf.

The punchline of the joke went further, with the hosts quipping that it’s not surprising for a “white African guy” to come up with an idea that closely resembles slavery, delivering a sharp critique of the perceived inequity and arrogance behind the proposal.

“You can’t be surprised that the white African guy’s first idea is slavery,” Weekend Update anchor Michael Che said. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s DOGE is looking for a few good super high IQ volunteers who need to work over 80 hours per week but there will be no payment. Their task is to reduce wasteful government expenditure. “Indeed, this will be tedious work, make lots of enemies, & compensation is zero,” Musk wrote. “What a great deal!” It’s not clear whether he meant it as a joke.

“Trump nominated Matt Gaetz for attorney general and Gaetz said the same thing he says when he sees a teenage girl: I’ll do it,” co-anchor Colin Jost said. “Gaetz, who was created when Frankenstein raped Dracula, was chosen for attorney general after Trump remembered that his original pick was found in dead a jail cell.”

During the Weekend Update segment on Saturday Night Live, Colin Jost took a jab at RFK Jr., jokingly referring to him as the first-ever survivor of “brain worms” to be nominated for a cabinet-level position. Adding to the humor, Jost quipped about RFK Jr.’s appearance, saying his skin always looks like it’s been cooked to a perfect medium-rare, delivering a sharp blend of satire and wit.

“Congratulations to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who became the first brain worm survivor nominated to a cabinet level position. Kennedy, whose skin is always cooked to a perfect medium rare, will lead the Department of Health and Human Services. I know he doesn’t have a lot of experience, but I say we give him a shot,” Jost said referring to his anti-vaccine stance.

In the Cold Open sketch on Saturday Night Live, James Austin Johnson delivered his signature impression of Donald Trump, this time humorously introducing a lineup of his “crazy cabinet” members to Dana Carvey, who reprised his iconic role as Joe Biden. The sketch played off the exaggerated personas of both political figures, with Johnson’s Trump bringing his usual over-the-top flair and Carvey’s Biden reacting in his trademark bumbling style, creating a comically chaotic interaction.

“It’s all about surrounding yourself with the best people. And I am very vastly picking the most epic cabinet of all time. They’re some of the most dynamic, free-thinking, animal-killing, sexually-criminal, medically-crazy people in the country.”

And then Matt Gaetz was played by Sarah Sherman, RFK Jr by Alec Baldwin as Trump’s cabinet picks appeared one by one. “Americans need someone to teach them how to be healthy, someone like me, a 70-year-old man with movie star looks and a worm in his brain,” Baldwin said in Kennedy’s shaky voice.

“I care deeply about a woman’s right to choose,” Baldwin’s RFK Jr. said, before clarifying, “To choose to give her child polio.”