Even though the star-studded “SNL” 50th special is finished, one comedy veteran remained at 30 Rock for this week’s new “Saturday Night Live” episode: Mike Myers. The comic, who played Elon Musk in a comedy that reenacted Donald Trump and JD Vance’s now-famous meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office, disrupted Saturday’s cold open.
“I’d like to welcome President Zelenskyy to this incredible trap,” James Austin Johnson’s Trump said at the top of the sketch before making a dig at Zelenskyy’s casual attire. “I’d like to thank President Zelenskyy for dressing like casual Star Trek. We love Star Trek because there’s no DEI. The white guy was the leader and he bossed around Spock who was, I believe, Guatemalan.”
Mikey Day played Zelenskyy, although he didn’t say much because Bowen Yang’s JD Vance attacked him just as he opened his lips in the sketch, which was based on the yelling war that broke out in the real meeting.
“I have to jump in here because that’s how we planned this,” Vance said. “You didn’t say thank you. You didn’t say anything about us being handsome.”
As soon as Day’s Zelenskyy attempted to respond, he interrupted, saying, “You have been talking this entire time. I’m sorry, does the sign outside say Ukraine House? No, it says America House.”
Trump capitalized on Johnson’s use of the phrase “I have the cards” from the real Oval Office meeting: “You say you wanna end this war, but frankly you don’t have the cards. I have the cards. I have Skip. I have Draw Four. I have Get Out of Jail Free, the Supreme Court gave me that one.”
With an imitation that felt rather accurate for the South African native, Myers’s Musk interrupted the proceedings to cheers from the audience. Myers took some cues from Austin Powers regarding the tech mogul’s demeanor.
“Uh Donald, what are you doing in my office? You know I’m the president now. I’m kidding! I’m kidding. Maybe not!” he said before bouncing up and down and shouting, “Legalize comedy! Legalize comedy!”
Regarding the numerous terminations occurring inside his DOGE department, Musk made a joke: “They’re saying I’m firing people with no cause.” However, I do have a reason. I do it because it makes me feel good.
Watch the sketch below.