Pete Davidson skewers Tom Homan, ICE chaos in SNL return

Pete Davidson returned to Saturday Night Live to portray President Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan in an “ICE Meeting Cold Open,” a parody framed around the chaotic federal response to the recent Minneapolis murders of Renée Good and Alex Pretti, MovieWeb reported. The sketch opened with a crawl explaining Homan had been sent to Minneapolis to “take control” and showed Davidson — bald and bespectacled — asking ICE commanders when the correct time would be to use force.

After one agent said “Right away” and another suggested “preemptively,” Davidson’s Homan called it “kind of a trick question” and asked what the job was about, prompting a confused reply: “This could be wrong, but, Don Lemon?” SNL then skewered Greg Bovino, who preceded Homan on the Minnesota detail, with Davidson mocking Bovino’s “Third Reich-esque” uniform.

Davidson’s Homan insisted Bovino wasn’t dismissed for doing a bad job, lying about a shooting, or “even, uh, dress[ing] like a Nazi,” but because “he was filmed doing those things, and the president [doesn’t] like that...” The cold open also referenced an alleged September 2024 video in which Homan was caught taking $50,000 in cash from undercover FBI agents posing as business executives amid an investigation into whether he accepted bribes for contracts tied to Trump’s 2024 campaign; MovieWeb noted the Department of Justice later dropped the case for insufficient evidence.

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