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‘SNL’ Spoofs Signal Chat Scandal, With Teen Girls Getting Added to Pete Hegseth’s Confidential Text Chain
‘SNL’ Spoofs Signal Chat Scandal, With Teen Girls Getting Added to Pete Hegseth’s Confidential Text Chain-May 2024
May 15, 2025 6:34 PM

National security leaders have inadvertently leaked Yemen attack plans again only this time, it was to teen girls on Saturday Night Live.

The NBC sketch comedy shows cold open spoofs the Trump administrations Signal chat scandal, which saw the highest-ranking national security officialsadd the editor-in-chief ofThe Atlanticmagazine to a Signal group text chainin which leaders discussed plans for an airstrike in Yemen. President Donald Trump later claimed the information shared in the texts was not classified. Days after the leak was revealed,The Atlanticreleased the text messagesthat included the attack plans. The latest SNL episode opens with three high school girls played by host Mikey Madison, Ego Nwodim and Sarah Sherman texting about boy drama, when all of a sudden, the trio gets added to a group text with U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, portrayed by Andrew Dismukes.

FYI green light on Yemen race, Dismukes Hegseth writes. Whos ready to glass some Houthi rebels. Flag emoji, flag emoji, flag emoji, fire emoji, eggplant.

The confused high schoolers question who is texting them, as Dismukes Hegseth continues, Israel better bend over and spread it. Baller, water squirt emoji. God bless the troops, eggplant.

Do we know you, bro? This is Jennabel, Madison replies as Nwodim adds, Hey, I think you have the wrong group chat.

LOL LOL. Could you imagine if that actually happened? Dismukes Hegseth says. Homer disappears into bush GIF. And oh my God, everyone, sending a PDF with updated locations of all our nuclear submarines. Check out that one we got chilling right outside Shanghai. Jordan Peele sweating like crazy GIF.

Bowen Yangs Vice President J.D. Vance later enters the chat.

Nice job with the strike, fam. Female skier emoji, he writes. My bad, meant to send fire emoji. Egypt owes us big time for this Yemen shiz. POTUS was saying we should make them give us the pyramids.

OK, Im engaging. The pyramids of Giza? Like, how would we move them here? a confused Madison asks. Yangs Vance responds, Same way they built them, either aliens or slaves.

Madison later texts, Oh, I gotta go. Matts here to pick me up. Were going to a movie, to which Dismukes Hegseth asks, Who? Gaetz? Madison quips, Actually, yeah.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, played by Marcello Hernndez, was next to join the group chat. Wait, who are the other three numbers here? P.S. sending you the real JFK files, not those fake ones we released. Do not share! he writes.

Nwodim tries to tell the national security leaders again, Weve been trying to tell you were in high school, as Sherman adds, I think you accidentally added us to a government chat.

In that case, we were totally pranking you guys, Hernndezs Rubio replies. But would you mind emailing your names and home addresses to deportations@ice.gov?

Hey, could be worse. We could have added the editor of The Atlantic again, Yangs Vance adds before Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg, played by Mikey Day, chimes in, You did!

Madison, the star of Anora, also makes her hosting debut on SNL, with musical guest Morgan Wallen.

During her opening monologue, the Oscar winner jokes about her pretty relaxed vibe in real life compared to the intense characters shes played in movies. After showing scenes from her films Scream and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Madison says, Those were two different characters who were lit on fire, and thats range.

She later talks about her role in Anora, which saw her play a young stripper from Brooklyn. I kind of feel like horseback riding prepared me for doing Anora, but instead of riding horses, I was riding a Russian twink, Madison quips.

I performed all my own stunts for the film, including all the dancing, so it does kind of bother me when people assume it wasnt actually me on the pole because it was, and I can prove it right now, she adds before the camera cuts to another person on a pole, not Madison.

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