The “Saturday Night Live” Trump impersonator who pilloried the president over claims he stopped wars is not satire. It’s just sad.

It’s also infuriating that SNL would use slaughter as fodder for ratings.

The dig comes as President Donald Trump says Ukraine and Russia are “closer than ever before” to a peace deal. That’s taken straight from Monday’s Associated Press mid-day report.

We’re against the censorship of the media. Full stop. But we’re also pushing back at those who seek laughter from despair. SNL has lost its luster, and it shows, but no one is laughing in hotspots around the globe.

But don’t take our word for it. Here are a few sobering facts:

There have been 53,006 civilian casualties, including 14,534 deaths, since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022. That’s according to a United Nations human rights report from October. “Frontline communities remain the most at risk, largely because of long-range missile and drone strikes, accounting for 65 per cent of deaths and injuries, particularly in the Kherson, Kharkiv, and Donetsk regions,” the report adds,
Nearly one million Russian troops have been killed or wounded in the country’s war against Ukraine, the New York Times reported in June.
That grim tally was based on a report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies that estimates 400,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed or wounded in the war. That was back in June, with the fighting still raging as we write this.

If the president can pull this ceasefire off, it will make history, and that’s what is so wrong about SNL. The skit is communicating to members of their impressionable audience that the president’s claim he stops wars is fodder for humor. Nothing about war is funny.

On the ground — from Ukraine to Russia, Gaza to Israel, Cambodia to Thailand — innocent women and children are suffering right now. At the very least, President Trump is trying to stop the killing.

What would SNL have him do? Escalate? Send care packages to the oppressed?

Even if one war was stopped by President Trump, and in his defense it is more, he deserves praise.

The president met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday to “create fresh momentum for a U.S.-brokered ceasefire in Gaza,” according to the AP. We all know how horrific that war has been.

But once again, President Trump wants to keep the peace, not ignite it anew.

The easy way would be for us to ignore SNL and the rest of the Trump haters, but we can’t. Speaking out against the horrors of war is the solemn oath anyone who puts their byline of any story vows to do. SNL is a joke. It has been for years.

The memory of the heart-wrenching clips compiled by the Israel Defense Forces, viewed by the Herald a few short weeks after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terror attack, still haunts. That’s why we flicked off SNL this past weekend.

In about 43 minutes of footage, you see “138 murders,” we were told at the Boston Israeli consulate, and it was our vow to no look away. War is no joke. It’s graphic, unsettling, and turn-away carnage.

Keep going, Mr. President. Somebody needs to rise above all this madness.

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