‘SNL’ Weekend Update Mocks Trump’s China Visit, ‘Blackout’ Kash Patel

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Saturday Night Live‘s addressed Donald Trump‘s brief time in China this week, as well as FBI Director Kash Patel‘s reportedly excessive alcohol consumption habits. Trump’s trip to Beijing to meet with President XI Jinping was 14,000 miles in total, and his time on the ground was just 48 hours—an event “which historians are already calling, ‘Could’ve been an email,’” Colin Jost joked. “President Trump arrived in China, but instead of Xi Jinping, he was greeted by the country’s vice president, Han Zheng—or as Trump called him, ‘Xi Jinping,’” Jost added. Co-anchor Michael Che then riffed on how, at one point,…

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