'SNL' Cold Open tackles Trump's rising gas prices

This week's Saturday Night Live cold open leans on James Austin Johnson's uncanny Trump impression to guide a tour of the latest week of governmental chaos.

It begins with a family stranded at a gas station, forced to make the grim calculation of which kid gets left behind after gas prices blow past $5 a gallon in the wake of the Iran war.

The family freezes and Trump appears with an unhinged stream of consciousness, breaking the fourth wall just enough. The sketch nods to that night's host, Harry Styles, and takes a sharp dig at Marcello Hernandez's well-established role as the show's perpetual child actor. "He's SNL's little chihuahua," Johnson's Trump declares. "That sounds racist, and it is."

Colin Jost's Pete Hegseth also makes an appearance, randomly tumbling out of the back of the family's Chevy Impala wearing shoes several sizes too big — a gift from Trump that he's apparently obsessed with.

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