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\u201cAs we all know, Iran has been two weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon for like the last 15 years or something so we had to act now. And we\u2019re doing war.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Trump then broke out into song<\/a>, \u201d\u2018War! What is it good for? Distracting from the Epstein files!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The spoofed president attempted to justify why the administration attacked the country in a campaign that killed<\/a> the country\u2019s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cWe had to strike in the early hours of Saturday, which has two advantages militarily: one, it\u2019s after the stock market closes for the weekend, and two, it\u2019s to cause immeasurable fear, rage and chaos in the \u2018SNL\u2019 writers room,\u201d quipped Trump in a nod to a scrapped \u201cState of the Union\u201d-themed sketch. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n The faux president then introduced Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth<\/a> (played by Colin Jost<\/a>), who explained why Americans should be thanking the administration for the attack.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cWe took out a horrendous, horrible leader who was oppressing his own people!\u201d stressed Hegseth before Trump hopped back into frame.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cBut don\u2019t get any ideas!\u201d advised Trump.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Watch more of the \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d cold open below.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cAs we all know, Iran has been two weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon for like the last 15 years or something so we had to act now. And we\u2019re doing war.\u201d Trump then broke out into song, \u201d\u2018War! What is it good for? Distracting from the Epstein files!\u2019\u201d The spoofed president attempted to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2307777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[22389,364881,384782,21890,22335],"class_list":["post-2307776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran","tag-pete-hegseth","tag-saturday-night-live","tag-snl"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Bored-Of-Peace-Trump-Hegseth-Scramble-To-Justify-Iran-Strikes.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2307776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2307778,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307776\/revisions\/2307778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2307777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2307776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2307776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2307776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}