SNL's 'lighthearted' Trump parody blasted as 'failure to read the room' after DHS shooting

Saturday Night Live opened its latest episode with a familiar cold open parodying President Donald Trump, but critics said the show’s usual antics and “lighthearted” jabs were a “gigantic failure to read the room” given a deadly ICE shooting that occurred just hours before the broadcast.

“Sorry to be a buzzkill SNL, but maybe don’t do a lighthearted Trump cold open on the same day his goon squad murdered an American citizen in broad daylight,” wrote Democratic strategist Matt McDermott Saturday...