‘SNL’ Weekend Update Uses Trump’s Own Words Against Him on Iran War

Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update bashed Trump’s efforts at regime change in Iran by reminding everyone what he said about Barack Obama 16 years ago.

Trump announced early Saturday that the U.S. and Israel were striking Iran, and encouraged Iranian citizens to then “take over your government.” It was later confirmed that the U.S.-Israeli attacks had killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader since 1989. According to the Iranian rights group HRANA, 133 civilians had been killed and 200 others were injured as of late Saturday.

“You guys, I’m starting to worry that President Trump might not win that peace prize,” Colin Jost began, as Trump has been angling for the the Nobel Peace Prize and trying to sell all the wars he has supposedly ended.

“This attack might be a bad idea. I don’t know. I’m not really an expert on Iran. So let’s hear from someone who can explain why we might have done it,” Jost continued, playing a 2011 clip of Trump criticizing then-President Barack Obama.

“Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate,” Trump says while sitting behind his desk at Trump Tower. “He’s weak and he’s ineffective.”

Jost nodded along. “See? Now that’s the Trump I voted for.”

Co-anchor Michael Che then addressed criticisms from the right and left that Trump, who had been negotiating with the country over its nuclear program, didn’t obtain authorization for the strikes.

“He did—Netanyahu said it was okay,” Che joked of the Israeli prime minister, who for decades has been claiming that Iran was close to developing nuclear weaponry.

“I can’t believe our leader can just attack Iran with no vote, no provision from Congress, no anything, ” Che continued. “I mean, what is this? Iran?”

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Weekend Update also addressed Trump’s record-length State of the Union address on Tuesday, which clocked in at nearly two hours, or as Jost put it, “almost two full diapers.”

“During the State of the Union address, Trump said our nation is back, ‘bigger, better and stronger than ever before,’” Jost continued. “‘Same,’ said the measles.”