The SNL cast's moms are tired of their kids' Trump jokes

Moms on SNL
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Saturday Night Live gave its normal political cold open a pass this week to celebrate Mother's Day, instead bringing on the cast's moms for sick burns on their children's comedy careers.

The moms took some personal swipes — 15-year cast member Kenan Thompson's mother literally can't remember when he wasn't on SNLbut they also wanted to weigh in on the show's jokes about the Trump administration.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.