"Saturday Night Live" kicked off with a holiday message from James Austin Johnson's Trump this week and, in it, he explained exactly why he's planning his own Hunger Games. To kick things off, the faux Trump hugged a Christmas tree,

In the latest "SNL" cold open, President Trump (James Austin Johnson) delivered a holiday message revealing why he is "inventing my own Hunger Games."

"Saturday Night Live" is once again parodying President Donald Trump -- this time, taking jabs at his recent holiday speech that included the announcement of his "Patriot Games" ... in light of the Jeffrey Epstein files dropping Friday.

"We released all the files, and I come out looking, frankly, very good," the show's POTUS impersonator bragged besides an almost entirely black-out excerpt.

The last SNL of 2025 & Bowen Yang's last show went hard on Trump & the just released elements of the Epstein files for its cold open

It only took a mere 40 years, but Cher finally returned to Studio 8H. The icon graced the “Saturday Night Live” stage as the musical guest Dec. 20, also the show’s final episode of the year. In a blond wig and pastiche of kitschy pants and a leather jacket, Cher, 79, performed her 2023 holiday song, “DJ Play A Christmas Song.”

The Kennedy Center has added Trump's name to the memorial Congress created for John F. Kennedy