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‘SNL’ cold open: Biden advisers warn of Russian disinformation: ‘Like a good neighbor, you are now Russia!’
This weekend’s “Saturday Evening Stay” chilly open had President Biden (James Austin Johnson) reeling over Russia’s disinformation marketing campaign forward of its suspected plans to invade Ukraine.
His White Home workers’s counter-proposal: Usher in a highschool imply woman to match Putin together with her personal teenage model of psychological warfare.
Nationwide safety advisers (performed by “SNL”‘s Ego Nwodim, Alex Moffat and Keenan Thompson) briefed the president on a barrage of faux information, memes, TikTok movies, relationship app adverts and even a industrial for Russian Allstate insurance coverage, the place “Like a very good neighbor, you are actually Russia!”
Additionally they confirmed the president a collection of faux information headlines saying: “Ukrainian border encroaching on Russian troops” and “American CDC strongly recommends Russia invade Ukraine.”
Johnson’s Biden shortly corrected that the CDC advisory utilized for only some months in 2020.
“The science was altering so quick,” he stated.
James Austin Johnson as President Biden on “Saturday Evening Stay,” Jan. 15, 2022.
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Different Russian disinformation claims, in response to Biden’s advisers: Musician Neil Younger had threatened to take away his playlist from Spotify except Ukraine invaded and a relationship app known as SoldiersOnly.com promised lonely Ukrainian girls that 100,000 Russian troops have been standing by to speak to them.
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They offered a preferred meme displaying NBA nice Michael Jordan crying, with the caption, “Why I gotta be Ukrainian when Russia two ft away” and a TikTok video of two Russian and Ukrainian troopers doing a synchronized dance.
St. Volodymyr’s Cathedral is seen in Kyiv, Ukraine, Jan. 28, 2022.
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Forged member Pete Davidson appeared in a disinformation industrial for Allstate insurance coverage as Aaron Rodgers, saying in an Japanese European accent that he was the “American ballplayer” who had damaged down on the facet of the street in Ukraine.
“Like a very good neighbor, Russia is there!” he sang.
Deciding they wanted to “battle fireplace with fireplace,” the advisers introduced in Mikayla (Chloe Fineman), a highschool imply woman and Biden’s new secretary of protection.
“Hello!” Fineman exaggerated. “I’m Mikayla spelled the worst approach. I’m a junior at a vicious woman’s highschool and y’all work for me now.”
President Biden speaks on the White Home in Washington, Jan. 24, 2022.
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Mocking the CIA’s personal “tough” makes an attempt at disinformation memes and TikTok movies and dismissing Biden’s thought of a drone strike, she defined of her era, “We don’t consider in drone strikes, we consider in breaking down our enemies psychologically. That’s why I’m going to DM Putin and say, ‘Oh my god, I cherished your outfit the opposite day. Was that Outdated Navy?’”
She claimed the backhanded praise would depart him “spiraling” and questioning, “Do they assume I’m poor?” and in three weeks he may have “fully misplaced his thoughts.”
“Spider-Man” star Willem Dafoe guest-hosted the Jan. 29 episode and Katy Perry was the musical visitor.
