Donald Trump's MAGA Furious After ‘SNL’ Mocks His Alleged Epstein Ties

"Saturday Night Live"’s latest opening skit has Donald Trump supporters seeing red after the NBC comedy show mocked the president’s connection to the recently unsealed Jeffrey Epstein files. The five-minute sketch, featuring James Austin Johnson as Trump, parodied a press conference where the president dodged reporters’ questions about his name appearing in Epstein’s emails. As usual, the jokes hit hard, and the MAGA base wasn’t laughing.

Within minutes of the episode airing, Trump loyalists flooded X with furious reactions. One user fumed, “E-mails from Epstein are not evidence, he had a vendetta with Trump, just another Democratic hoax!?” Another blasted the segment as biased, writing, “Keep it coming, baby, and the Clintons and half of Hollywood will be in jail in no time.”

Others demanded legal action, with one post reading, “Hope he sues the hell out of them.” Another viewer dismissed the show entirely, writing, “'SNL' makes fun of Trump. Water is wet. Predictable and boring.” A fifth critic summed up the outrage, claiming, “@NBCSNL hasn’t been funny in years. The media is the only one that watches it.”

Another X user chimed in, writing, "'SNL' is pathetic!! A bunch of communist losers!!" Someone else asked, "Who writes this crap?"

In the skit, Johnson’s Trump clumsily fielded questions from Kenan Thompson’s reporter about why he hadn’t released the Epstein files despite pressure from his own supporters. The parody president accidentally made several “Freudian slips,” joking that he was hiding “almost nothing, just enough to make it extremely suspicious.”

When confronted with an Epstein email calling him “the dog that hasn’t barked,” Trump went on a bizarre tangent comparing himself to “a cub or possibly an otter, definitely not a twink.”

The cold open escalated with surreal references to Trump “existing across multiple timelines,” a framed Epstein email print-out, and a crude joke linking him to Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu. It closed with the Trump impersonator pardoning “a turkey that was a sex criminal,” a jab at his record of controversial pardons.

The "Saturday Night Live" open didn’t just come out of nowhere. It landed right in the middle of a storm of headlines surrounding Donald Trump’s renewed connection to Jeffrey Epstein. The timing of the parody couldn’t have been sharper, airing just days after newly released emails reignited scrutiny over Trump’s past relationship with the disgraced financier.

Epstein, who was once friendly with Trump, mentioned the president several times in emails that surfaced this week as part of a trove of more than 20,000 pages of documents released by the House Oversight Committee. Among them were three redacted email exchanges shared by Democrats on Wednesday, one written to Epstein’s longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell, and two to Trump biographer Michael Wolff.

In one 2011 message to Maxwell, Epstein wrote, “I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is Trump. [Redacted victim’s name] spent hours at my house with him, he has never once been mentioned.”

Just days later, another explosive message came to light. According to ABC News, Epstein allegedly called Trump “dangerous” in a 2017 email to former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, written just weeks after Trump’s inauguration. “Recall I’ve told you, I have met some very bad people, none as bad as Trump. Not one decent cell in his body… so yes. Dangerous,” Epstein reportedly wrote.

The controversy didn’t stop there. A third email from Epstein to Trump biographer Michael Wolff, dated January 31, 2019, surfaced among the thousands of newly released documents, and it’s adding even more fuel to the fire.

In the message, Epstein wrote, “[Redacted victim’s name] mara lago,” before continuing with another partially redacted line. “Trump said he asked me to resign, never a member ever. Of course he knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop.”

The timing of these revelations made "SNL"’s latest parody especially provocative, with the writers using the controversy as comedic fuel, but conservative viewers accused the show of going too far and unfairly targeting Trump while ignoring Epstein’s reported ties to high-profile Democrats. Many called for boycotts of NBC and mocked the sketch as proof that "SNL" has “lost its edge.”

As of now, neither the White House nor Donald Trump have commented on the skit.