SNL cold open sees hapless Hegseth, Vance and Rubio joining high-schoolers’ group chat

After learning that the teenagers were in the group chat, he added: “We were totally pranking you guys, LOL.

Hegseth later denied that any “war plans” were shared on the group chat, resulting in the outlet publishing the full message exchanges.

Rubio, played by Marcello Hernandez, later joined the SNL group chat offering to share the “real” JFK files, and “not those fake ones we released.”