Colin Jost mocked Luigi Mangione, the suspect charged in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, over writings officers found on him during his recent arrest.
In a “manifesto” published Tuesday by independent journalist Ken Klippenstein, Mangione expressed his anger at corporate America, naming several companies, including Apple, Google and Walmart, that have “continued to grow” while “continuing to immensely abuse our country.” . benefit.”
“However, he went to Starbucks before the shooting and then got caught at McDonald's. So perhaps his greatest crime was hypocrisy,” the “Weekend Update” host quipped.
Jost – who joked that Americans are having a “thorny, delicate debate” over who will play the suspect in a Netflix miniseries – addressed the one-star Yelp reviews of the McDonald's location, where a customer and an employee recognized the suspect before his arrest.
“First of all, who looks at McDonald's Yelp reviews? McDonald's only Yelp review should be: “Was open.” “Five stars,” he said.
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