SNL portrays another Iran press conference, and this time Colin Jost’s Pete Hegseth hit such diverse pop culture references as Papa Roach and Sebastian from “The Little Mermaid,” and his Jamaican accent, all while acting like a frat bro. During Q and A with the press corps, Hegseth shows off his chops as “White Hamilton” by rapping about his drinking. Pete gives some time to Ashley Padilla’s Kristi Noem, who describes her new office for Shield of the Americas as a WeWork outside of Denver, heavily implying that Trump is trying to exile her after her Homeland Security firing.
The Babylon Bee does its best to turn the perpetual carnage of the Iranian landscape into a joke by having Iran claim it is strategically destroying US missiles by having its buildings be hit by them. This joke is heightened when a regime spokesman brags about the “missing” missiles before strategically placing himself in front of one. And of course the navy isn’t sunk, it’s going underwater to avoid detection.
In this very cleverly written piece for McSweeney’s (whether you agree with it or not), the author responds to the President’s claims that Iran needs a regime change by designing a neutral set of questions designed to test regime change necessity. As the questions unfold, it’s clear that while situations like a dictator naming things after himself and trying to create his own currency could apply to Iran, there are clear similarities to President Trump. The author makes this explicit with sublinks to other articles detailing Trump’s activities that could be loosely described as megalomaniacal. And then the article ends with the author saying, “If you answered yes to these questions, you should non-violently protest your leader.” A not very subtle call to action against the current President.
The Onion captured the abrupt downfall of recently fired former DHS secretary Kristi Noem by now having her role reduced to being a scarecrow. The best joke was the White House having her gradually adjust to being a scarecrow by having her wear a giant burlap hat at Washington functions. And of course, even in satirical fiction, her new career as a scarecrow couldn’t end well, as she is fired due to a failure rate of crops.
In this satirical piece, President Trump praised the recently fired DHS secretary. “She did a good job, for a skirt.” Noem’s new post in the Shield of the Americas is described as being directly involved in shooting boats full of illegal immigrants and providing assault weapons to ICE. In a stark statement, Noem defends her new role, “I shot my own dog, I killed three Americans in Minneapolis, this job is baby stuff.” A very dark take on Noem’s DHS firing.
