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Trump AG Pam Bondi embraces SNL Poehler spoof with Noem
Tina Fey, left, and Amy Poehler spoof DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and Attorney General Pam Bondi, during the Oct. 11, 2026, broadcast of “Saturday Night Live.”
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Attorney General Pam Bondi on Sunday embraced a biting “Saturday Night Live” spoof of her and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
“@Sec_Noem, should we recreate this picture in Chicago?” the attorney general wrote in an X post above a photo showing the episode’s host Amy Poehler depicting Bondi and fellow SNL alumna Tina Fey as assault-rifle toting Noem.
“Loving Amy Poehler!” Bondi tweeted.
Poehler in SNL’s cold open skit of Saturday spoofed Bondi’s contentious testimony last Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Bondi, during that appearance, stonewalled questions from Democratic senators and insulted them.
“I wish you loved Chicago as much as you hate President Trump,” Bondi snapped at Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., after he asked if the White House had consulted her in advance of deploying federal troops to that city.
On Saturday, Poehler channeled Bondi, telling the committee, “What’s up, nerds? Furious to be here.”
Asked if she agreed to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, Poehler scoffed and said, “No.”
“Before I don’t answer, I’d like to insult you personally,” Poehler said to Mikey Day, the actor playing Connecticut Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal.
When asked by another “senator” if the FBI had found photos of President Donald Trump during a raid of a residence of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Poehler replied, “Sir, I’m not even going to dignify that question with a lie.”
Bondi, for months, has faced criticism for reneging on her promise and those of other Justice Department officials to release to the public investigative files about Epstein.
Bondi wasn’t the only Trump loyalist to be roasted by SNL. When Fey appeared in the opening skit as Noem, she said she was “the rarest type of person in Washington, D.C., a brunette that Donald Trump listens to.”
Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on “Oversight of the Department of Justice” in the Hart Senate Office Building on Tuesday, October 7, 2025.
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When Day argued that Democrats wanted to end the government shutdown, Fey said, “Ha, that makes me laugh more than the end of ‘Old Yeller.’”
“When the dog gets shot?” Day asked her.
Fey replied, “Dogs don’t just get shot. Heroes shoot them.”
While serving as South Dakota governor last year, Noem revealed in a memoir that she had killed her 14-month-old puppy, Cricket, and an unidentified goat, because the dog had an “aggressive personality” and the goat was “nasty and mean.”
As prisoners stand looking out from a cell, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks during a tour of the Terrorist Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on March 26, 2025.
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Noem’s memoir was released as she was being considered as a running mate for Trump. She was not selected for that role.
“I can understand why some people are upset about a 20-year-old story of Cricket, one of the working dogs at our ranch,” Noem wrote in an X post last year.
“Whether running the ranch or in politics, I have never passed on my responsibilities to anyone else to handle. Even if it’s hard and painful. I followed the law and was being a responsible parent, dog owner, and neighbor,” she added.
