Pete Hegseth, JD Vance stumble into teen girls text chain about boys as SNL mocks SignalGate: Think you have the wrong group chat
They wanted to talk about hot boys, not hot wars.“Saturday Night Live” took on the Signalgate drama, spoofing the scandal by casting Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Vice President JD Vance as accidentally stumbling into a text chain of high school girls — and sharing government secrets anyway.The show opened with a group of girls bantering in a private chat group about a cute boy in their class.“Wait, does anyone else think Mark Doogan is low-key hot with that haircut?” one girl wrote in the chat.Others quickly agreed before their chat moved in a deadly serious direction.
“FYI.Greenlight on Yemen raid.
Airborne 15 minutes ago.Who’s ready to glass some Houthi rebels? Flag emoji, flag emoji, flag emoji, flag emoji, flag emoji, fire emoji.
Eggplant,” SNL’s Defense Pete Hegseth (Andrew Dismukes) wrote.“Israel better bend over and spread it.Cleaning up their mess.
Baller.Water squirter emoji,” Hegseth added, after identifying himself.
The girls in that chat were bewildered by the message and one replied, “Do we know you, bro? This is Jennabelle.”“Oh nice, Jennabelle from Defense, right?” SNL’s Hegseth shot back.“Hey, I think you have the wrong group chat,” another girl wrote back.SNL’s Hegseth laughed off the warning, responding, “LOLOLOL, could you imagine if that actually happened?”Instead, he doubled down and sent a “PDF with locations of all our nuclear submarines” while noting that the US had something “right outside Shanghai.”One of the girls pleaded with the Pentagon chief to stop “sending us stuff.”That’s when SNL’s Vice President JD Vance (Bowen Yang) chimed in from Greenland — quipping about the veep’s visit to the Danish territory, “no one knows why I’m here, especially me.”“Bro, Egypt owes us big time for this Yemen chiz POTUS is saying we should make them give us the pyramids,” Vance lamented.In the real-life leaked Signal chat, Vance had complained that the US had to carry o...