{"id":2190610,"date":"2025-12-08T03:54:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T03:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2190610"},"modified":"2025-12-08T03:54:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T03:54:16","slug":"pete-hegseth-defends-operation-kill-everybody-in-snl-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/pete-hegseth-defends-operation-kill-everybody-in-snl-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Hegseth Defends &#8216;Operation Kill Everybody&#8217; In &#8216;SNL&#8217; Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cWeekend Update\u201d straight man <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/topic\/colin-jost\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Colin Jost\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"6935a6fae4b0e3887427d2ab\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"\/topic\/colin-jost\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"feed\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"3\">Colin Jost<\/a> played up Hegseth\u2019s prickly side in a parody press conference, where he stormed into the room, chest bumped a staffer and berated the pool of journalists before he begrudgingly opened the floor to questions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cSo you got questions for me? Fine! Pretend like I\u2019m a random fishing boat and fire away,\u201d he quipped, a note to the controversy surrounding the U.S.\u2019s open-water attacks on boats that the Trump administration claims are smuggling drugs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, that kind of cruel, heartless act has no place in \u2018Operation Kill Everybody,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cSecond, I wasn\u2019t 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 \u2014 I\u2019m sorry, a guy I met at an anonymous meeting \u2014 so I don\u2019t drink something that I like and I want, but I can\u2019t have, but I want it, and I need it, and I want it right now. Ba, ba ba-ba-da! It\u2019s booze.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>When asked to confirm the death toll of the attacks on alleged drug-smuggling boats, which has reportedly surpassed 80 people, Jost\u2019s Hegseth smugly replied, \u201cLet\u2019s just say, if I had a drink for every Venezuelan we\u2019ve killed, I\u2019d really like that number of drinks.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Watch the full sketch here:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWeekend Update\u201d straight man Colin Jost played up Hegseth\u2019s prickly side in a parody press conference, where he stormed into the room, chest bumped a staffer and berated the pool of journalists before he begrudgingly opened the floor to questions. \u201cSo you got questions for me? Fine! 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