AG Pam Bondi embraces SNL spoof of her and DHS Sec. Kristi Noem: 'Loving Amy Poehler!'

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Tina Fey, left, and Amy Poehler spoof DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and Attorney General Pam Bondi, during the Oct. 11, 2026, broadcast of "Saturday Night Live."

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Attorney General Pam Bondi connected Sunday embraced a biting "Saturday Night Live" spoof of her and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

"@Sec_Noem⁩, should we recreate this representation successful Chicago?" the lawyer wide wrote successful an X station supra a photograph showing the episode's big Amy Poehler depicting Bondi and chap SNL alumna Tina Fey arsenic assault-rifle toting Noem.

"Loving Amy Poehler!" Bondi tweeted.

Poehler successful SNL's acold unfastened skit of Saturday spoofed Bondi's contentious grounds past Tuesday earlier the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Bondi, during that appearance, stonewalled questions from Democratic senators and insulted them.

"I privation you loved Chicago arsenic overmuch arsenic you hatred President Trump," Bondi snapped astatine Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., aft helium asked if the White House had consulted her successful beforehand of deploying national troops to that city.

On Saturday, Poehler channeled Bondi, telling the committee, "What's up, nerds? Furious to beryllium here."

Asked if she agreed to archer the truth, the full truth, and thing but the truth, Poehler scoffed and said, "No."

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"Before I don't answer, I'd similar to insult you personally," Poehler said to Mikey Day, the histrion playing Connecticut Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal.

When asked by different "senator" if the FBI had recovered photos of President Donald Trump during a raid of a residence of the precocious enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein, Poehler replied, "Sir, I'm not adjacent going to dignify that question with a lie."

Bondi, for months, has faced disapproval for reneging connected her committedness and those of different Justice Department officials to merchandise to the nationalist investigative files astir Epstein.

Bondi wasn't the lone Trump loyalist to beryllium roasted by SNL. When Fey appeared successful the opening skit arsenic Noem, she said she was "the rarest benignant of idiosyncratic successful Washington, D.C., a brunette that Donald Trump listens to."

Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies during the Senate Judiciary Committee proceeding connected "Oversight of the Department of Justice" successful the Hart Senate Office Building connected Tuesday, October 7, 2025.

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When Day argued that Democrats wanted to extremity the authorities shutdown, Fey said, "Ha, that makes maine laughter much than the extremity of 'Old Yeller.'"

"When the canine gets shot?" Day asked her.

Fey replied, "Dogs don't conscionable get shot. Heroes sprout them."

While serving arsenic South Dakota politician past year, Noem revealed successful a memoir that she had killed her 14-month-old puppy, Cricket, and an unidentified goat, due to the fact that the canine had an "aggressive personality" and the goat was "nasty and mean."

As prisoners basal looking retired from a cell, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks during a circuit of the Terrorist Confinement Center successful Tecoluca, El Salvador, connected March 26, 2025.

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Noem's memoir was released arsenic she was being considered arsenic a moving mate for Trump. She was not selected for that role.

"I tin recognize wherefore immoderate radical are upset astir a 20-year-old communicative of Cricket, 1 of the moving dogs astatine our ranch," Noem wrote successful an X post past year.

"Whether moving the ranch oregon successful politics, I person ne'er passed connected my responsibilities to anyone other to handle. Even if it's hard and painful. I followed the instrumentality and was being a liable parent, canine owner, and neighbor," she added.

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