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Matt Damon’s Brett Kavanaugh reveals how Trump will serve a third term in boozy SNL cold open 20%
By Andrea Cavallier0%
5/10/2026, 4:54:52 AM
Topics: Saturday Night Live, Political Satire
Keywords: Matt Damon, Colin Jost, Brett Kavanaugh, Trump, Pete Hegseth, Snl, Aziz Ansari, Kash Patel
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Matt Damon returned to Saturday Night Live where he reprised the part of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, revealing in the cold open sketch that President Trump will serve a third term.
Damon joined Colin Jost’s Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Aziz Ansari's FBI Director Kash Patel in a Washington, DC bar where the three bonded over drinks.
“It’s nice to have my sneaky bar here where I’m not going to run into anyone from work, because none of Trump’s people like drinking as much as I do,” Jost’s Hegseth says just as Damon’s Kavanaugh busted through the bar crowd, still wearing his justice robe.
The judge bangs his gavel on the bar and says: “Order!
I find in favor of six Bud Lights and three shots of Jamo!”
The barman, played by Kenan Thompson replies: “Yep, a 6-3 decision coming right up” – riffing on the conservative-liberal breakdown of the Supreme Court.
The pair joke that they are both “kicking ass” since Hegseth has “started a war” and Kavanaugh has “ended abortion.”
The two were later joined by Ansari’s Patel – shouting “Does this bar take Kash?” – who produces a bottle of spirits and says he’s made his own bourbon with his name on it.
Ansari, looking into the camera, then says very deliberately: “Yes, somehow this is a real thing that I, the FBI Director, have made – this is real!”
He then boasts that he’s living the American dream because he’s “the first person in my family to go to college .... parties many years after graduating.”
Damon’s Kavanaugh then decides to drop a top secret with his drinking buddies – that they’re going to let Trump do a third term.
When Jost chimes in saying he thought it was unconstitutional, Damon admits that “it was,” but that Trump found the original constitution and at the end, wrote: “Sike!”
“We’re going to live forever,” Damon exclaims as they all cheer.
Trump has repeatedly said that he wants to serve a third term, despite this being forbidden by the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution.
The bartender then announces last call and the trio order their final drinks.
Jost says he’ll drink a whiskey drink, Damon says he’ll drink a vodka drink, Ansari says he’ll drink a lager drink – then Jost adds, “I’ll drink a cider drink.”
Then they all break into the Chumbawamba song “Tubthumping,” singing: “I get knocked down, but I get up again, you never gonna get me down.”
The bar setting plays on the idea that all three have a history of drinking – although Patel is suing The Atlantic and its reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick over claims that he has a drinking problem that has affected his work.
The outlet and Fitzpatrick say they stand behind the story.
Kavanaugh discussed his college drinking during his Senate confirmation hearing.
Hegseth has denied having a drinking problem but said he would give up alcohol completely if confirmed as Defense Secretary.
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