Focus on the BIG picture.
Monday, Nov 03, 2025
Outside the box.
SNL’s ‘Property Brothers’ Sketch Takes on Trump’s White House Renovation
Miles Teller stars as twin real-estate gurus tasked with rebuilding the White House East Wing under President Trump’s extravagant commands
In a pre-taped sketch aired this weekend, the satire program ‘Saturday Night Live’ cast actor Miles Teller as twin real-estate experts Jonathan and Drew Scott in a spoof of the Canadian show ‘Property Brothers’.
Their client: President Donald Trump, portrayed by James Austin Johnson.
Set inside the White House East Wing, the twins are hired by Trump and First Lady Melania (Chloe Fineman) to build a new ballroom and execute a full demolition of the existing structure.
Trump, boasting urns “everywhere, like a hundred in every room”, instructs the brothers that the budget runs “between $350 million and infinity”.
He also quips, “We’re not leaving.
We’re gonna be doing something called ‘coup!’”
When the brothers ask if they need a permit, Trump replies he could build the ballroom “with the bones of my enemies, and no one could stop me”.
In another scene Melania misattributes her Halloween decorations—“dead trees, skeletons”—to Christmas décor.
The sketch escalates into absurdity with Trump’s mood-board featuring Russian President Vladimir Putin and Jabba the Hutt, plans for an MMA ring for “two mentally ill guys just wailing on each other … we love bum fights”, and the demolition team composed of “Park Rangers and astronauts” after government workers were “deported”.
SNL’s riff on the White House makeover delivers a sharp, surreal critique of the excesses of power, blending real political tension with far-fetched comedy.
Teller’s performance as the duplicitous real-estate duo and Johnson’s Trump combine to create a memorable commentary on spectacle and authority in modern Washington.
Their client: President Donald Trump, portrayed by James Austin Johnson.
Set inside the White House East Wing, the twins are hired by Trump and First Lady Melania (Chloe Fineman) to build a new ballroom and execute a full demolition of the existing structure.
Trump, boasting urns “everywhere, like a hundred in every room”, instructs the brothers that the budget runs “between $350 million and infinity”.
He also quips, “We’re not leaving.
We’re gonna be doing something called ‘coup!’”
When the brothers ask if they need a permit, Trump replies he could build the ballroom “with the bones of my enemies, and no one could stop me”.
In another scene Melania misattributes her Halloween decorations—“dead trees, skeletons”—to Christmas décor.
The sketch escalates into absurdity with Trump’s mood-board featuring Russian President Vladimir Putin and Jabba the Hutt, plans for an MMA ring for “two mentally ill guys just wailing on each other … we love bum fights”, and the demolition team composed of “Park Rangers and astronauts” after government workers were “deported”.
SNL’s riff on the White House makeover delivers a sharp, surreal critique of the excesses of power, blending real political tension with far-fetched comedy.
Teller’s performance as the duplicitous real-estate duo and Johnson’s Trump combine to create a memorable commentary on spectacle and authority in modern Washington.
