Donald Trump didn’t throw much support behind Secretary of War Pete Hegseth in the cold open of the Dec. 6 episode of “Saturday Night Live.”

Colin Jost reprised his role as Hegseth, berating the press as they were asking about the United States’ strikes on boats that were alleged to be operated by narco-terrorists. After calling one journalist fat and berating another for being single, he made a less-than-believable denial that the military operation went as planned.

“That kind of cruel, heartless act has no place in operation ‘Kill Everybody,'” Jost-as-Hegseth said. “Second, I wasn’t even in the room when it happened. OK, I was so jacked up after the first strike I had to make an emergency call to my sponsor … I’m sorry, a guy I met at an anonymous meeting. So I don’t drink something

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