Correction: A previous version of this story misstated who attended the Volodymyr Zelenskyy meeting in the Oval Office. 

This week’s “Saturday Night Live” cold open took aim at President Donald Trump’s heated exchange with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, sarcastically calling it a meeting that “went really, really well.”

“Everyone who watched felt at ease and thought, ‘The world is now a safer place,'” the opening narration said. 

Cast member James Austin Johnson returned as Trump, with Bowen Yang playing JD Vance and Mikey Day as Zelenskyy. Marcello Hernández

played a near-silent Marco Rubio who continued to slide further and further into the couch cushions.

Yang, as Vance, played off of the vice president’s actual interruption to Zelenskyy: “Have you said thank you once?”

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“You haven’t said thank you to us once in the past 15 seconds I’ve been yelling at you,” Yang quipped, continuing, “You didn’t say thank you, you didn’t say anything about us being handsome. ‘Who are my handsome little boys?’ You didn’t ask us that once.”

“JD finally got to audition for ‘Real Housewives of Potomac,'” Johnson as Trump said in the cold open’s closing, playing on Andy Cohen’s comparison of the real-life meeting to an episode of the reality show.

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Mike Myers made a surprise appearance in the cold open, playing a glitching, chainsaw-wielding Elon Musk.

“Donald, what are you doing in my office?” Myers (as Musk) said. 

The cold open poked fun at Elon’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and recent mass firings. Tens of thousands of U.S. government employees have been fired in recent weeks as Trump furthers his plan to shrink the federal workforce.

“They’re saying I’m firing people with no cause. But I do have cause, it’s ’cause’ I feel like it,” Myers said. 

Shane Gillis hosts ‘SNL’ for second time, ‘bombs’ opening monologue: Reactions

Shane Gillis, the stand-up comedian who was famously fired from “SNL” in 2019 over offensive podcast comments, hosted this weekend.

Gillis joked about enjoying historical documentaries, making an off-color date rape joke when he called it “kryptonite to women.”

“If you put that on, they will fall asleep immediately,” he said. “That’s a little Cosby tip for you actually. Who needs roofies when we have ‘Ken Burns Presents: The History of the Buffalo’ on PBS.”

On social media, users were quick to share backlash.

“Shane is usually pretty funny but he bombed hard here,” one user commented on the “SNL” Instagram account.

“Less than not funny. Offensive and misogynistic. Blech,” another commented.

Another called it a “disappointing” follow-up to the Zelenskyy-Trump cold open.