The new “Saturday Night Live” chilly open spoofed a reported conflict between tech billionaire Elon Musk and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Within the comic strip, James Austin Johnson’s President Trump is within the Oval Place of business with Marcello Hernández’s Rubio, with the president telling his secretary of State that he “can’t have you fighting with Elon.”
“I need you to be my good ‘Little Marco,’” Trump says, referencing a nickname the president has used for Rubio previously.
Rubio tells Trump within the comic strip that he doesn’t strengthen Musk “having total access to our government.”
“Planes are crashing, and he keeps trying to fire air traffic controllers,” he provides.
Mike Myers’s Elon Musk later enters the scene, with Trump telling the tech billionaire that he needs “to thank you for at least wearing a suit this time.”
“Doesn’t look great, right? Billionaire but he at shops at Joseph A. Bank, it’s giving groomsman,” Trump states.
Rubio and Musk move after every different, with Trump within the center and the president later proposing that “If you’re going to insult each other, at least make them good, okay?”
“One thing like Elon, ‘How do you have 20 kids, but I’ve never seen you with a chick, just dudes named “donkey dong” and “boner king?”’… And right here watch this, ‘Marco, short and gay,’ stylish,” Trump states.
On Friday, The New York Occasions reported that Musk and Rubio clashed in a up to date Cupboard assembly. In line with the Occasions, Musk went after the secretary of State for now not firing a big portion of the group of workers on the State Division and mentioned that he’s simplest “good on TV.”
The Occasions reported that Rubio has been privately “furious,” with the tech billionaire for some time, particularly following the Division of Govt Potency (DOGE) taking up an effort to near down the U.S. Company for World Building, which administers billions of bucks in humanitarian, safety and building help in over 100 nations.
Amid the Cupboard assembly remaining week, Rubio driven again. He mentioned that Musk used to be now not talking the reality and requested if over 1,500 State Division employees who went into early retirement will have to be introduced again so they might simplest be fired to rely for layoffs, in line with The Occasions.
Following Rubio and Musk’s going back-and-forth and tensions emerging between the 2, Trump waded in and defended his secretary of State.
The Hill has reached out to the White Space and State Division for remark.
