SNL mocks Morgan Wallen's abrupt walk-off twice in new episode: 'Get me to God's country, right?'

Forgive and forget? Maybe not at Saturday Night Live.

One week after Morgan Wallen turned heads by abruptly walking off the show's stage in the middle of its weekly goodnights, the cast of SNL made sure they got the last laugh. The latest episode included not one, but two references to Wallen's controversial departure. 

During Weekend Update, cohost Colin Jost roasted the singer while unpacking America's perilous financial state in the wake of President Donald Trump's tariff decisions.

"This was the worst week for the stock market since the summer of 2020. But you have to remember, back then, the president… was also Trump," Jost began. "Just in the past two days, investors have lost over $6 trillion."

He then quipped, "Money is leaving the stock market faster than Morgan Wallen at goodnights."

The joke earned a hearty laugh from the live audience as Jost took a long pause to stare directly into the camera. 

Earlier in the show, another SNL star poked fun at Wallen's widely circulated social media moment. Hours after he hightailed it out of Studio 8H, the country singer shared a photo to his Instagram Stories of a private jet, captioning the image, "Get me to God's country."

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This didn't go unnoticed by fans or SNL cast members, and a week later it's still on their minds. In the show's cold open, James Austin Johnson, playing President Trump, referenced the caption while boasting about his tariff plan.

"I even put tariffs on an island uninhabited by humans. It's called Heard and McDonald's Island," he said, then continued down a new track. "McDonald's Island. I would love to visit there. Can you imagine that? Big Mac and a hula skirt."

Pulling out a mock-up of the island, Johnson's Trump looked at the burger in a hula skirt and said, "Get me to God's country, right?"

When the crowd burst into laughter, he added, "Remember that? Wow."

The jokes come a week after Wallen shared quick pleasantries with host Mikey Madison before swiftly walking off stage and past the cameras, with the credits still rolling. A source close to the situation told Entertainment Weekly that Wallen exited "the way he entered and exited the studio all week during rehearsal and camera blocking," which is why he said goodbye only to Madison before leaving.

The "Whiskey Glasses" singer has yet to publicly comment on the incident, but is referencing it through new merchandise. Days after the controversy began, Wallen's merch store began selling T-shirts and hats that say, "Get me to God's country."

Meanwhile, some SNL cast members have not held their tongues about the stir Wallen caused. The day after his walk-off, SNL writer Josh Patten posted a parody of Wallen's IG Story image showing a Krispy Kreme doughnuts delivery truck with a "Get me to God's Country" caption.

SNL cast member Kenan Thompson even spoke with Entertainment Weekly about the incident. "I don't know what goes through people's minds when they decide to do stuff like that. I don't know if he understood the assignment or not, or if he was really feeling a certain kind of way," he said. "You see somebody before you get a chance to say hi or say good job or anything like that, they just dipping. I thought maybe he had to go to the potty or something."

"It's definitely a spike in the norm," Thompson added. "We're so used to everybody just turning around and high-fiving us, everybody's saying, 'Good job, good job, good job.' So when there's a departure from that, it's like, hmm, I wonder what that's about? ... Seems like a complicated individual, I guess."

Thompson also took issue with Wallen's IG image and caption. "The 'God's country' of it all is strange because it's like, what are you trying to say?" he said. "You trying to say that we are not in God's country? We're not all in God's country? We're not all under God's umbrella? That's not necessarily my favorite."