Colin Jost doesn’t get the opportunity to step out from behind the “Weekend Update” desk too often. The “Saturday Night Live” head writer made the most of his time on two legs, playing Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth as a swaggering, pro wrestling-esque maniac.

Jost walked out to a press conference about “Operation Kill Everybody” to entrance music, slamming an energy drink while telling the assembled reporters to “shut the hell up.”

“As you probably read in some gay newspaper, we are now at war with Venezuela,” Jost said before throwing up the Dane Cook superfinger. “You got questions for me? Fine. Pretend I’m a random fishing boat and fire away.”

The first reporter, played by Mikey Day, asked if Hegseth authorized a second strike on the survivors of an attack on a suspected drug-tra

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