Saturday Night Live opened by addressing one of the most concerning stories yet of the second Trump administration: top officials discussing war plans in a group chat that mistakenly included a journalist.
Rather than texting only the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (Andrew Dismukes), Vice President JD Vance (Bowen Yang) and Secretary of State Marco Rubio (Marcello Hernandez) include three high school-aged girls.
As the girls (Ego Nwodim, Sarah Sherman, and SNL host Mikey Madison) discuss topics that have nothing to do with strikes on Houthi rebel forces in the Middle East–one boy’s “glow-up vibes,” for instance–Hegseth…