Saturday Night Live came back swinging this week with a crazy, Trump-themed spoof of HBO’s The White Lotus called “The White POTUS.” With season three of The White Lotus still in the minds of fans, SNL recast the drama of the Ratliff family as the Trump family, and chaos ensued quickly.
Melania Meets the Southern Belle
James Austin Johnson spearheaded the line-up as Donald Trump, resplendent in Jason Isaacs’ brooding presence, with Chloe Fineman inhabiting Melania as a Southern-accented, emotionally bereft wife, riffing ridiculously off Parker Posey’s character. “Hun? Donald? Earth to Donald,” she purrs, aping Posey’s panache, as Trump gapes off into political oblivion.
Scarlett Johansson appeared unexpectedly as a cringy upscale Ivanka Trump, and Alex Moffat again played a spaced-out Eric Trump. Mikey Day played Don Jr., aping the entitled-but-dim vibe of Saxon from The White Lotus, including a gasp-inducing romantic twist: a bedroom scene with Kenan Thompson as Tiger Woods, who is seeing Don Jr.’s actual ex-wife. Yikes, SNL went there.
Politics Gets the White Lotus Treatment
The sketch didn’t end there at family drama. Jon Hamm leapt in as Robert F. Kennedy Jr., spoofing Walton Goggins’ part with anti-vax swagger, and Sarah Sherman kept pace with the show’s inimitable awkward vibe as Chelsea. Musical guest Lizzo aced Natasha Rothwell’s Belinda, infusing the character with sass and soul when she yelled, “These old white Trump dudes are trying to ruin my life!” after her net worth plummeted.
With Heidi Gardner playing Kristi Noem, Ashley Padilla as Pam Bondi, and Marcello Hernández as a straight-faced Marco Rubio, SNL ensured the whole MAGA team checked into this high-end hotel of disaster.
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The sketch cleverly mirrored The White Lotus’s themes of privilege, oblivion, and moral decay—only this time with America’s most controversial political family at its centre. Whether you’re laughing at the absurdity of Don Jr.’s love life or the line, “Trump Triggers Worldwide Recession,” the parody hit all the right notes.
It was a fever dream of pop culture and politics, once again demonstrating that no one eviscerates power quite as well as SNL. In “The White POTUS,” they didn’t merely mock HBO—they made it strangely presidential.”
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