Walton Goggins Loved the MAGA ‘White Lotus’ Spoof on ‘SNL’

There appears to be at least one White Lotus Season Three cast member who was a big fan of Saturday Night Live’s Trump-centered spoof: Walton Goggins.

The sketch placed various members of the Trump family and cabinet in the titular Thai hotel, with host Jon Hamm portraying Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a send-up of Goggins’ character, Rick. Where Rick spent all of Season Three brooding over his dead father and seeking revenge, Hamm’s RFK Jr. obsessed over removing fluoride from the drinking water and nearly eats a monkey.

Goggins appeared to enjoy the big, commenting on the official SNL Instagram page, “Hahahahahhahaha Amazzzingggg.” He also shared the sketch on his IG Stories, captioning it, “SMASHING. Jon… I knew I was miscast.” (The post was deleted, though you can see a screen grab via The New York Post.)

Goggins’ comments are notably very different from his co-star Aimee Lou Wood, whose character, Chelsea, Rick’s devoted girlfriend, was spoofed by SNL cast member Sarah Sherman. Wood said she found the sketch “mean and unfunny,” and criticized it for appearing to draw a line between the fluoride bit and her gap teeth. 

“I actually love being taken the piss out of when it’s clever in good spirits,” Wood wrote on Instagram. “But the joke was about fluoride. I have big gap teeth not bad teeth.” She added: “I don’t mind caricature – I understand that’s what SNL is. But the rest of the skit was punching up and I/Chelsea was the only one punched down on … Not Sarah Squirm’s fault and not hating on her. Hating on the concept.” (Wood did note later that she received an apology from folks at SNL.) 

Goggins’ and Wood’s vastly different reactions to the skit have, however, fueled further speculation about a possible rift between the two actors. Since the Season Three finale, the rumor mill has been churning heavily, especially after fans noticed that the two no longer follow each other on Instagram (despite both also sharing heartfelt and earnest tributes to the show and their characters). 

Meanwhile, Season Three’s ostensible biggest lover of mess, Jason Isaacs, has only continued to fuel the speculation with his characteristically vague-yet-juicy comments about all the off-camera drama that occurred during production. During a recent appearance on The Happy Hour podcast, Isaacs compared production to a “pressure cooker,” and said, “Like anywhere you go for the summer, there’s friendships, there’s romances, there’s arguments, there’s cliques that form and break and re-form and stuff like that.”

At the same time, though, Isaacs also pushed back against the rumors, saying, “Nobody has the slightest clue what they’re talking about. People who think they’re onto something, and it then gets magnified because of a thousand other people. Nobody has any clue.”

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