“Saturday Night Live” took on the most infamous group chat of the week.

The show’s latest cold open tackled the news that Trump administration officials shared secret war plans in a chat that accidentally included “The Atlantic” editor Jeffrey Goldberg. In the “SNL” sketch, a group of high school girls were gossiping, only to discover Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (Andrew Dismukes) had entered their group chat to discuss a raid on Yemen.

After being told he had the wrong chat, Hegseth refused to believe it, asking, “Could you imagine if that actually happened?” He continued sharing top secret information, declaring, “Hey, while I got everyone, sending a PDF with updated locations of all our nuclear submarines.”

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Vice President JD Vance (Bowen Yang) was soon added to the chat, participating from his visit to Greenland. “Nobody knows why I’m here, especially me,” Yang’s Vance said before sending the girls a “PDF of all deep cover CIA agents.”

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When Secretary of State Marco Rubio (Marcello Hernández) entered and realized what was happening, he insisted the whole thing was a prank before asking the girls to email their names and addresses to ICE.

The sketch ended by revealing journalist Goldberg (

Mikey Day) had also been in the chat the entire time. “Hegseth, you have got to lose my number,” he said.

The story came up again during “Weekend Update,” with Colin Jost quipping, “This week, we learned our entire national security team has the texting skills of my Aunt Janet.”

‘Anora’ star and ‘SNL’ host Mikey Madison jokes she’s ‘going to bed’ after busy month

Mikey Madison has had quite a month.

The “Anora” star began March by winning best actress at the Oscars and ended it by hosting “Saturday Night Live,” so she vowed in her monologue, “In April, I’m going to bed.”

Madison also poked fun at her many chaotic characters, with the actress sarcastically claiming she likes to incorporate her “relaxed vibe” into her roles. This set up a montage of Madison screaming and violently dying in various films, including clips of her being set on fire in two movies: “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” and the fifth installment of “Scream.”

“So just to clarify, those were two different characters who were lit on fire. And that’s range,” she joked.

Madison went on to discuss being a “proud, self-proclaimed horse girl” growing up and showed a photo of herself with her horse dressed in a “couples costume” on Halloween. She quipped, “I know, it’s so hard to believe I was homeschooled, right?”

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Morgan Wallen draws criticism for walking off ‘SNL’ during the show’s signoff

The episode ended with an unusual moment as musical guest Morgan Wallen broke from “SNL” tradition and made an unexpectedly early exit.

The “SNL” cast and musical guest typical stay on stage saying goodbye and hugging one another while the credits roll each week. But as Saturday’s episode wrapped, Wallen abruptly left the stage as soon as Madison said goodnight.

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After only giving Madison a hug, the singer walked into the audience and past the camera, while the rest of the cast remained on stage for another 90 seconds.

Fans were critical of Wallen’s move, with one Reddit comment suggesting, “He’s been there before and knew exactly what he was doing. He wanted to show the audience he didn’t care for the cast or doing the show.” In an Instagram Story after the show, Wallen posted a photo of a plane and wrote, “Get me to God’s country.”

“SNL” will return next week with host Jack Black and musical guests Elton John and Brandi Carlile.