SNL’s Pam Bondi desires her job again after making historical past with Trump firing: ‘I shattered that glass exit door’ | EUROtoday

Saturday Night Live’s chilly open sketch featured a tearful Pam Bondi who remained defiant as she boasted of constructing historical past as “the first woman ever to be fired as attorney general.”

Bondi, performed by comic Ashley Padilla, appeared in a NCAA March Madness-themed sketch whereas Keenan Thompson criticized the federal government as basketball legend and colourful pundit Charles Barkley.

“Now I’m going to choose my words very carefully here,” Thompson mentioned as Barkley. “As Attorney General Pam Bondi was, and I don’t say this often, terrible. It is a shame when somebody gets fired, but we should all be glad that that freckle-chested dragon lady is gone.”

Padilla then appeared to stability out the argument, “in accordance with Federal Communication Commission guidelines.”

“Hello, gentlemen. It’s so great to be here at the Final Four… years of this country,” she mentioned.

“The truth is, I was amazing at my job and I am proud to say I made history as the first woman ever to be fired as Attorney General,” she mentioned. “I shattered that glass exit door.”

Bondi was unceremoniously fired by Donald Trump earlier this week, with hypothesis that the president misplaced confidence in her dealing with of the Justice Department’s launch of hundreds of thousands of information associated to Jeffrey Epstein. Her departure additionally follows his public outrage over the company’s failure to prosecute his political enemies.

She was reportedly knowledgeable of Trump’s choice whereas driving with the president on the best way to a Supreme Court listening to Wednesday.

“I’m so sorry,” mentioned a tearful Padilla. “I just, oh my God, I miss it already. And they threw my headshot in the trash like it was the Epstein files.”

Photos shared on-line by MS NOW appeared to point out Justice Department staffers had certainly thrown Bondi’s portrait right into a trash can hours after her departure was introduced. Sources informed the outlet that many had long-since harbored detrimental emotions in the direction of the lawyer common.

Back on SNLPadilla’s Bondi was consoled by her fellow basketball pundits who reassured her that she would doubtless produce other alternatives.

“Yeah, you could work in sports. I mean, you already look like a woman’s basketball coach who got suspended for pulling on a player’s braid,” Thompson joked, momentarily breaking character to chuckle.