After Musk’s request worked, “the stock market went up like this,” Che jokes, imitating his infamous salute
Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update took on Donald Trump‘s whiplash actions on tariffs, Elon Musk‘s attempt to get the president to back down, and Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s crusade against fluoride in public drinking water, among his other anti-science actions.
Co-anchor Colin Jost joked about one social media post Trump had made this week trying to soothe nerves as markets were falling.
“Just hours before Trump paused the tariffs, he tried to calm investors by posting, ‘Be cool, everything is going to work out well,’” Jost recalled. “Be cool? This is the global economy. It’s not like we got too high and we’re trying to get through dinner with our parents.”
