Colin Jost and Michael Che took aim at President Donald Trump’s transportation secretary regarding his handling of the widespread flight groundings, as reported by Yahoo Entertainment on Saturday.
During a November 14 press conference, former reality television personality Sean Duffy said that the emergency originated from flawed routine maintenance that was inexplicably planned for Friday afternoon’s peak travel hours.
“The scary thing by far about all these flights getting grounded was the messaging from the normally dependable Trump administration,” Jost joked.
“First, they said it was a telecommunications outage ‘as of now,'” Jost said. “Why add ‘as of now’? No one wants to hear, ‘Your child is safe—as of now.'”
Jost added, “Sean Duffy said the whole situation was the result of a contractor upgrading copper wire to fiber optic cable. So one guy switched out one wire and took out all planes? I think that’s literally a scene from the movie Airplane!“
Michael Che, the co-anchor, ridiculed Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin over his briefing addressing the grounded flights.
“DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin tried to calm fears by saying this is not a 9/11,” Che said. “Which he knew because Rudy Giuliani didn’t see his shadow.”
Looking for a silver lining amidst the chaos, Jost quipped that the Staten Island ferry he famously purchased alongside Pete Davidson suddenly appeared to be a fairly dependable travel option.
Drawing attention to the matter, Jost highlighted Trump’s assertion that he was unaware of Huang’s affair, despite The New York Times publishing that he received a briefing about it in May of this year.
