Mikey Madison played a teenage girl going on a date with the former Florida representative in a sketch in the latest episode.
Oscar-winning actor Mikey Madison, who hosted the latest episode of Saturday Night Live (SNL), appeared in a sketch that ridiculed the Signal group chat leak furor and also took a swipe at former Florida Representative Matt Gaetz.
Newsweek reached out to Gaetz for comment via a spokesperson for One America News, a network on which the former congressman hosts a show.Why It Matters
Gaetz, a former representative for Florida’s 1st congressional district between 2017 and 2024, was forced to drop out of consideration for the role as President Donald Trump’s attorney general because of allegations of sexual misconduct against him.
The former congressman, a hard-line Republican and Trump loyalist, became part of a Department of Justice federal sex-trafficking investigation in the final months of the president’s first administration. Among the allegations made against Gaetz was that he had paid for sex with a 17-year-old girl in 2017—which he has strongly denied.What to Know
Gaetz was never charged in the sex-trafficking investigation against him, and to this day he insists he did not do anything wrong. In a social media post published on X, formerly Twitter, in December 2024, he said he was „fully exonerated“ and „the people investigated hated me.
