Saturday Night Live hasn’t always had the easiest time finding humor in the Trump era. But they found a new way in on Saturday’s episode, with a sketch in which a mother admits to her adult children that she has started to lose faith in Trump.
In the sketch, Ashley Padilla tells her four assembled adult children that she has something “shocking” to say to them, and that she doesn’t want them to react. “No talking, no faces, no nothing.”
After some false starts, she tells them, “I may have changed my mind about Trump.” It turns out, she was a supporter up until that moment, when her children clearly were not.
They do not, alas, honor her wishes to not react:
mom has something she needs to get off her chest pic.twitter.com/VRTHdZce5V
— Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) February 1, 2026
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“I feel like he might be bad for our country,” Padilla’s mom character says, very slowly.
“Give me grace,” she says. “I feel like maybe some of the things he says aren’t true,” to more shocked reactions from her kids.
“I swear to god, if I heard one more ‘I told you so,’ I will go see the Melania movie, tonight!,” she adds.
The dad, played by host Alexander Skarsgard, keeps wanting to change the subject to plans to have his birthday dinner at Red Robin that night. Although his punchline is, “plenty of room in the Cybertruck.”
The sketch was very well-received by the SNL audience, with some personally relating to it:
😂😂😂😂😂
This is a primer for everyone with MAGA family and friends and what they might be saying soon 😂 https://t.co/zLWZyxp1hJ— EZ Rider🌻🇺🇸🦅 (@EZRideryoyall) February 1, 2026
This is hilarious and true. What makes it funny is the truth that behind every MAGA supporter there’s a person who can’t say they are wrong and can’t say they are sorry. That’s the soul of MAGA and that’s where Trump’s power comes from. https://t.co/XbsPKmmTTS
— Rob Wood (@MediawatchNw) February 1, 2026
This SNL skit about a MAGA mom slowly realizing she made a mistake supporting Trump—and her kids absolutely losing their shit over it—is so real to me. Especially the dad saying they should give her more grace because she has an old laptop that gets a different internet than you… https://t.co/DYCeP9HKy8
— Mike Nellis (@MikeNellis) February 1, 2026
It’s nice to know that the show can still get some decent satire out once in a while (looking at you, still to be uploaded cold open). The confidence the show has in Ashley to give her all that breathing room is incredible. Still a featured player and undeniably already the glue. https://t.co/HJMsQJJSbn
— That Week In SNL (@ThatWeekInSNL) February 1, 2026
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