Saturday Night Live targeted Morgan Wallen after the abrupt release of the country’s star during the end of the program at the end of March.
During the COLD Open on April 5 of the NBC Sketch Comedy Show on April 5, just a week after the appearance of Wallen as a musical investigation, President Donald Trump – depicted by James Austin Johnson – made Wallen a blow while discussing his “Liberation Day” tariffs.
“I even put prices on an island uninhabited by humans. His name is Heard and McDonald Island,” said Trump of Johnson, sticking a poster featuring a hamburger in a Hula skirt. “I would love to visit there. Can you imagine this? Big Mac and a Hula skirt. Bring me to the country of God, right? Do you remember that?
The line “Get Me To God’s Country” was a direct wink at Wallen’s comment on its Instagram story after its released release of the show on March 29, when it suddenly left the scene at the Studio 8H during the end credits after whispering something to welcome Mikey Madison.
Later in the episode of April 5, SnlColin Jost had fun in Wallen when updating the weekend, making jokes about the country’s financial state.
“It was the worst week for the stock market since the summer of 2020. But you have to remember – at the time, the president was also Trump,” said Jost. “In the past two days, investors have lost more than 6 dollars. The money leaves the stock market faster than Morgan Wallen in Goodnights. ”
During his appearance of musical guests on SnlWallen interpreted the title of his next album, I am the problemas well as his song “just in case”.
Only a few days after its controversial appearance, the country singer took advantage of the very publicized moment by launching a new line of goods “Get Me To God’s Country”. Wallen had not publicly commented on the incident or explained the sense of expression at the time of the press.
In an interview Weekly entertainment After the departure of Wallen, for a long time Snl Kenan Thompson, a member of the distribution, described the incident “permanently a peak in the norm”.
“We are so used to what everyone turns around and wants us to get out of it, everyone says:” Good work, good work, good work “. So when there is a start of that, it’s like, hmm, I wonder what it is? Thompson said, adding that Prince had done the same thing when he appeared in the show years ago.
“I am not saying that Morgan Wallen is Prince, but we were not surprised because Prince was notoriously in a way.
Wallen’s next album, I am the problemshould be released on May 16 and presents 37 tracks, although only a few song titles have been revealed so far.
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