Saturday Night Live UK said the President Donald Trump for a joke about his age while responding to the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
“For all who attended it was an undeniably scary event,” the Weekend Update cohost Ania Magliano started on Saturday, May 2 (Deadline). “President Trump is doing it for himself. Minutes later a shot went off.”
Us Weekly has reached out to the White House for comment.
The latest SNL UK episode – hosted by The White Lotus' Aimee Lou Wood and music from MEEK — turned on another Trump joke as part of a sketch there King Charles III (Larry Dean) and Queen Camilla (Emma Sidi) congratulated themselves on a successful state visit to the US
“There's no way Donald Trump is going to do anything weird or bad again,” the Queen said.
SNL UK's Weekend Update joke about Trump's age follows on the heels of Jimmy Kimmel facing controversy because of a joke he told in it Jimmy Kimmel Live! on April 23. As part of the Faux-White House Correspondents' Dinner roast, Kimmel said that the first lady Melania Trump 'it shone like a pregnant widow.
After two days, Cole Thomas Allen is said to have opened fire at the security checkpoint at the Washington Hilton when the Trumps, the Vice President JD Vance and other officials attended the White House Correspondents' Dinner inside the grand ballroom. The Secret Service officer was hit in his protective vest and was taken to a local hospital for treatment.
Allen, 31, was arrested during the incident and charged with attempted murder of the President of the United States, transporting a firearm and ammunition in interstate commerce with intent to commit a felony, and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence, according to the Department of Justice. He hasn't applied yet.
President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference on April 25, 2026, in Washington, DC.
Andrew Leyden / Getty ImagesOn Monday, April 27, both Melania, 56, and Donald, 79, released separate statements saying Kimmel was fired from ABC because of the “expected widow” joke he made two days before the incident.
“Kimmel's hateful and violent speech is intended to divide our country,” Melania said on Twitter. “His one-liners about my family are no joke – his words are vile and deepen the political malaise in America. People like Kimmel should not have the opportunity to enter our homes every evening to spread hate.”
Kimmel responded to calls for his firing Jimmy Kimmel Live! that night, insisting that he had been joking about Donald's age, not making a “kill call.”
“This [joke] it was Thursday. There was no big reaction to it, until this morning, when I greeted the day with another storm of Twitter vomit and a call to fire me from our first lady, Melania Trump, saying I should be fired for a joke I made, again, five nights ago. It was a sham roast,” he told viewers on Monday.
The comedian continued, “Obviously it was a joke about their age difference and the look of happiness we see on her face every time they are together. It was a good joke that she is almost 80 years old and younger than me. It was not, by definition, a call to kill, and they know that. in that house.”
The President continued to urge the ABC to withdraw Jimmy Kimmel Live! while the late-night host received unexpected support from a Republican senator Ted Cruz and sequential analyst Candace Owens. Kimmel has since revealed that Trump made a joke about his aging during a visit to the royal country this week.
Saturday Night Live UK continues on Sky 1 in the UK on Saturday, May 9, with the host Hannah Waddingham and music from Myles Smith. New episodes can be streamed on Peacock in the US
