Actor Colin Jost made a rare cold open on Saturday Night Live ( SNL ) this week, appearing as an aggressive Secretary of Defense—or war, as he prefers being called—Pete Hegseth holding a press conference on the U.S. military strikes off the coast of Venezuela.

In the sketch, Jost is asked by a reporter whether he truly gave the order to kill the two survivors of a U.S. military strike on September 2—an allegation that sparked outrage this week.

“First of all, that kind of cruel, heartless act has no place in ‘Operation Kill Everybody,’” Jost 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—sorry, a guy I met at an anonymous meeting.”

The sketch was concluded by Jost saying he know

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