{"id":2421287,"date":"2026-05-18T04:42:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T04:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2421287"},"modified":"2026-05-18T04:42:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T04:42:16","slug":"trump-gets-a-visit-from-will-ferrells-jeffrey-epstein-in-dark-snl-cold-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/trump-gets-a-visit-from-will-ferrells-jeffrey-epstein-in-dark-snl-cold-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Gets A Visit From Will Ferrell&#8217;s Jeffrey Epstein In Dark &#8216;SNL&#8217; Cold Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t worry, Donald, it\u2019s me \u2014 your best friend, Jeffrey Epstein,\u201d began the \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entertainment\/topic\/snl\">SNL<\/a>\u201d host while donning ghastly attire and haunting Trump during one of his \u201cpatented mid-work naps\u201d in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cJeffrey? But I thought you were dead?\u201d asked a startled Trump in the sketch.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cI am, remember? I killed myself \u2014 wink!\u201d replied the faux Epstein, a not-so-subtle nod to conspiracy theories surrounding the late convicted sex offender\u2019s suicide.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Johnson\u2019s Trump proceeded to catch Ferrell\u2019s Epstein up to speed on his second term, remarking his \u201capproval ratings <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/trump-approval-poll-reuters-ipsos_n_69f16157e4b0e475dfdd7212\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"in the 30s\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"6a090c88e4b0ee716972fec0\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"69f16157e4b0e475dfdd7212\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"buzz\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"4\">in the 30s<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cOh, the 30s? Gross. Call me when it hits 17,\u201d replied Ferrell before the two shared a laugh together.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The faux Epstein later looked back on the \u201cfun times\u201d he shared with his old buddy Trump, adding that they \u201cshould\u2019ve taken more pictures\u201d together.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cNo, it\u2019s really bad that we took any,\u201d Johnson\u2019s Trump said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Ferrell\u2019s Epstein closed with a blunt reminder for his friend-in-chief: \u201cNo matter how many wars you start or how bad you tank the economy as a distraction, people will always associate you with me.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Watch more of the \u201cSNL\u201d cold open \u2014 which includes an Epstein-Trump duet and several mock MAGA guest appearances \u2014 below.<\/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>\u201cDon\u2019t worry, Donald, it\u2019s me \u2014 your best friend, Jeffrey Epstein,\u201d began the \u201cSNL\u201d host while donning ghastly attire and haunting Trump during one of his \u201cpatented mid-work naps\u201d in the Oval Office. \u201cJeffrey? But I thought you were dead?\u201d asked a startled Trump in the sketch. \u201cI am, remember? I killed myself \u2014 wink!\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2421289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[22389,22942,22335,306353],"class_list":["post-2421287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-donald-trump","tag-jeffrey-epstein","tag-snl","tag-will-ferrell"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Trump-Gets-A-Visit-From-Will-Ferrells-Jeffrey-Epstein-In.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421287","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=2421287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2421292,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421287\/revisions\/2421292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2421289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2421287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2421287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2421287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}