Tina Fey, left, and Amy Poehler spoof DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and Legal professional Normal Pam Bondi, in the course of the Oct. 11, 2026, broadcast of “Saturday Evening Reside.”
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Legal professional Normal Pam Bondi and the Division of Homeland Safety on Sunday embraced a biting “Saturday Evening Reside” spoof of her and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.
“@Sec_Noem, ought to we recreate this image in Chicago?” Bondi wrote in an X put up above a photograph exhibiting the episode’s host Amy Poehler depicting the lawyer normal and fellow SNL alumna Tina Fey as assault-rifle toting Noem.
“Loving Amy Poehler!” Bondi tweeted.
DHS later tweeted an Immigrationon and Customs Enforcement agent recruitment video that started with a deadpan Fey nailing Noem’s Midwest accent.
The video then shortly segued into footage of immigration brokers kitted out in tactical gear, busting open doorways and arresting undocumented folks, with the monitor “Depend Your Blessings,” by hip-hop duo Suicideboys blasting, its curse phrases minimize out.
“Thanks for the free commercial @NBCSNL,” DHS’s X account stated. “Get Criminals Out. Make Historical past. Save America. http://JOIN.ICE.GOV.”
Poehler in SNL’s chilly open skit of Saturday spoofed Bondi’s contentious testimony final Tuesday earlier than the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Bondi, throughout that look, stonewalled questions from Democratic senators and insulted them.
“I want you liked Chicago as a lot as you hate President Trump,” Bondi snapped at Sen. Dick Durbin, D-In poor health., after he requested if the White Home had consulted her upfront of deploying federal troops to that metropolis.
On Saturday, Poehler channeled Bondi, telling the committee, “What’s up, nerds? Livid to be right here.”
Requested if she agreed to inform the reality, the entire reality, and nothing however the reality, Poehler scoffed and stated, “No.”
“Earlier than I do not reply, I would prefer to insult you personally,” Poehler stated to Mikey Day, the actor taking part in Connecticut Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal.
When requested by one other “senator” if the FBI had discovered photographs of President Donald Trump throughout a raid of a residence of the late intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein, Poehler replied, “Sir, I am not even going to dignify that query with a lie.”
Bondi, for months, has confronted criticism for reneging on her promise and people of different Justice Division officers to launch to the general public investigative recordsdata about Epstein.
Bondi wasn’t the one Trump loyalist to be roasted by SNL. When Fey appeared within the opening skit as Noem, she stated she was “the rarest kind of individual in Washington, D.C., a brunette that Donald Trump listens to.”
Legal professional Normal Pam Bondi testifies in the course of the Senate Judiciary Committee listening to on “Oversight of the Division of Justice” within the Hart Senate Workplace Constructing on Tuesday, October 7, 2025.
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When Day argued that Democrats wished to finish the federal government shutdown, Fey stated, “Ha, that makes me snort greater than the top of ‘Outdated Yeller.'”
“When the canine will get shot?” Day requested her.
Fey replied, “Canines do not simply get shot. Heroes shoot them.”
Whereas serving as South Dakota governor final yr, Noem revealed in a memoir that she had killed her 14-month-old pet, Cricket, and an unidentified goat, as a result of the canine had an “aggressive persona” and the goat was “nasty and imply.”
As prisoners stand searching from a cell, Division of Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem speaks throughout a tour of the Terrorist Confinement Heart in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on March 26, 2025.
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Noem’s memoir was launched as she was being thought of as a working mate for Trump. She was not chosen for that position.
“I can perceive why some persons are upset a couple of 20-year-old story of Cricket, one of many working canine at our ranch,” Noem wrote in an X put up final yr.
“Whether or not working the ranch or in politics, I’ve by no means handed on my obligations to anybody else to deal with. Even when it is onerous and painful. I adopted the legislation and was being a accountable mum or dad, canine proprietor, and neighbor,” she added.
