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On 'SNL', the GOP auditions Donald Trump, JD Vance, Pete Hegseth and other top Republicans for a call-to-action midterms video. It doesn't go well.
Rubio , in an effort to appeal to Hispanics turned off by two years of Trump, delivers a message in Spanish: “Oh my God, he tricked us!
And he tricked me too! ” Vance then enters the room confidently before a GOP consultant snubs him: “Mr. Vice President, could you go in the hall and get the next person? ” Vance rolls out wheelchair-bound McConnell , who can only sit there with a frozen expression.
He eventually manages to hold up a peace sign, and when prompted to say his line, responds hoarsely: “Live from New York, it’s Sat—” But that’s the wrong line, the other consultant tells him, as Vance pushes him violently off stage. The vice president then lobbies for his own shot at delivering a message to disillusioned voters. It lasts four words.
“Hi, I’m JD Vance,” is all he is able to get out before being cut off, mocked as a “superstar,” and told to leave. “Listen up you patriots: I need you to do the gayest thing ever and vote,” he begins, before proudly recappingthis week in the form of slam poetry about having “no fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals” in the military. “And we’re religious now.
Yeah, I’m putting ‘God’ back in war and it’s working. Our soldiers are praying a lot more than they used to. I’m always hearing them say, ‘Dear God, why?
'” “In conclusion, vote—I guess? ” he says.
“And remember, if you’re stationed overseas, you can still vote by mail. And that’s the only ‘bi male’ I’m cool with. ” The GOP operatives seem the most pleased with Hegseth’s pitch, but one more candidate gives it a go: Trump.
“I’m President Trump and I approve this ramble. We’re getting boned out there! But not for long, because I have a solution,” he says, referring to his de factoStray Kids Join BTS in Grammy Submission BoycottAfter telling people to just pretend he’s on the ballot, Trump trashes one of the Senate candidates he endorsed, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, and then records a victory message just in case Republicans are successful in the midterms: “We did it! We won!
Nobody has ever won so much before! ”Fiona Lowe, Daughter of Chad Lowe and Kim Painter, Dies at 13Rolling Stone is a part of PMX Global, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Media Corporation. © 2026 Rolling Stone, LLC. All rights reserved.
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