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Trump’s Christmas Threats Against Santa & Epstein File Redactions Provide Lukewarm Results For ‘SNL’s Last Cold Open Of 2025

SNL's James Austin Johnson as Donald Trump on the Dec. 20 episode of the NBC late-nighter NBC With Ariana Grande back as Saturday Night Live host, and longtime cast member Bowen Yang leaving, it was pretty obvious that the NBC late night was going to be pretty Wicked, literally and figuratively, tonight. What was less evident was where the Lorne Michaels was going to go with its tone setting cold open.

Trump Threatens To Arrest Santa, Distract From Epstein Files In SNL Cold Open

Trump Threatens To Arrest Santa, Distract From Epstein Files In SNL Cold Open

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Key Highlights

  • “Ho, Ho, Ho, Ho, Yes we added a fourth Ho,” declared James Austin Johnson’s Donald Trump in a Christmas address to the nation.
  • Moving faster, the fictional POTUS went after Santa Claus less than week before the Big Night: “We have to be vigilant this Christmas as Americans, as you know, Arctic immigrants are coming in through our chimneys and stealing our milk and cookies …we’ll be looking into that.” Related Stories News Bowen Yang Bids Farewell To 'SNL', Teases "Dreamiest" Send-Off With Ariana Grande Politics Justice Department Begins Release Of Jeffrey Epstein Files Leaning into POTUS’ satire rich oddball, boring and way too loud December 17 address to the nation, that was leaked as the start of a war against Venezuela to convince the nets to broadcast it, the beginning of tonight’s show was a grab bag of far from greatest hits — like Trump’s actual 15-minute speech of earlier this week.
  • Watch on Deadline Donald Trump’s December 17, 2025 speech from the White House Photo: Getty Photo by Doug Mills – Pool/ Still, like so many SNL cold opens of recent years, the show could have just relied on the tried and true and taken a page or two out of the just released portions of the DOJ files on dead pedophile and Trump pal Jeffrey Epstein — which is what they did, as you can see here: Trump delivers a holiday message from the White House Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) December 21, 2025 “Why are you putting your name on so many buildings?
  • We had to take it off so many files.” “I almost forgot I’ve been inventing my own Hunger Games,” SNL Trump went on to say.
  • “That’s right, the White House will be hosting the Patriot Games for high school athletes to compete.
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