SNL cold open skewers Trump’s obsession with winning prizes – and taking other people’s: ‘I love me!’
- by Independent
- Jan 25, 2026
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The nominees were the presidentâs odd photo hugging the American flag at CPAC last year, his appearance in the Epstein files, an image taken of Trump staring blankly ahead as a man collapsed from a medical issue in the White House in November, and the spectacle of Trump winning a newly created FIFA peace prize, which was announced after the real Trump had just lost out on his long-sought attempt to win a Nobel.
When Trump won the award, he told the crowd, âI love me! I really love me!â a reference to Sally Fieldâs famous 1985 Best Actress speech.
When Argentinian president Javier Milei, played by Marcello Hernández, was speaking onstage about the best foreign film category (winner ânadaâ), Trump rushed the stage and claimed, âIâm taking this award, Iâm taking Greenland, and Iâm taking Zootopia,â a fictional realm from a Disney movie.
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President Trump stole the award for best kiss â of his rear end â from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem as part of the opening sketch
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Soon after, once âlegend of horrorâ and Homeland Security advisor Stephen Miller got through onstage, Trump was back, this time to interrupt DHS Secretary Kristi Noem as she accepted the best kiss award for âTrumpâs ass.â
Trump again leapt into the spotlight, this time thanking his âlong-time agent,â the Norse god of mischief and trickery Loki.
The sketch concluded with Mike Myers reprising his role as Elon Musk to present a comedy achievement award, plus a duet between fictional versions of country star Carrie Underwood and a member of the Village People. The song honored all the things Trump destroyed over the last year, which the sketch named as the White House East Wing, DEI, civil rights, constitutional checks and balances, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
The skit was a play on the presidentâs well-known love of pomp and circumstance, as well as his long-running, thus far fruitless, public campaign for a Nobel Prize.
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The sketch made passing mention of controversy around Trumpâs immigration crackdown, but didnât specifically delve into the events of this morning, when federal agents fatally shot a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis
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Earlier this week, a leaked message from Trump linked his campaign to take over Greenland to his frustration over not getting a Nobel.
The president warned that he âno longer feels an obligation to think purely of peaceâ after he didnât get the prize, which instead went to Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who ended up symbolically giving it to Trump during a White House visit earlier this month.
Neither the sketch nor the opening monologue by host Teyana Taylor specifically mentioned the fatal Saturday morning shooting that took place in Minneapolis, in which Border Patrol agents killed U.S. citizen Alex Pretti.
Last week, SNL cut a sketch mocking immigration agents from cast member and Minnesota native Tommy Brennan, blaming time constraints.
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