'SNL' Weekend Update Breaks Down Trump's Awkward Coachella Rally and Vance's Election Denial

Saturday night live Weekend Update took aim at Donald Trump’s rally earlier in the day in Coachella, California, of all places, as well as his running mate’s strange and repeated refusal to admit that Trump lost the 2020 election.

“Donald Trump held a rally today at the site of the Coachella Music Festival, because, like Trump, Coachella brings out the worst in white people,” joked Colin Jost, after the audience applauded Trump, blatantly threatening to withhold aid against wildfires in California – something he did as president.

“Maybe it was the 100-degree heat, but it also brought out the strangest thing about Trump,” Jost said, before moving on to Trump addressing someone in the crowd. “Abraham Lincoln, stand up,” Told told the person.

“Given your recent history at rallies,” Jost continued, “do you really want you and Abraham Lincoln to stand up?”

Trump, a sexual abuser who is scheduled to have a hearing on Fox News before an all-female audience next week, may have a hard time with this, joked Michael Che: “Good luck trying to talk about all those rape whistles! ”

Jost then addressed how Vance — as he did in his debate against Tim Walz — refused to say that Trump lost the 2020 election. Vance had five chances to do so in a recent interview with the New York Timesat one point saying, “And I answered your question with another question.”

Jost wondered what happened next: “Vance offered to move the interview under a bridge so he could answer it in the form of a riddle.”

“You can’t answer questions with questions,” Jost added. “If a police officer asks, ‘Have you been drinking?’ you cannot ask him: ‘Have you I’ve been drinking-ossifier?”