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Morgan Wallen Finally Addressed His Hasty ‘SNL’ Exit: ‘I’d Been There All Week’

Morgan Wallen finally addressed his much talked-about hasty 'SNL' exit in March, saying 'I had been there all week.'

After performing two songs on the Mikey Madison-hosted episode, Wallen briefly joined the cast on stage at the end of the episode, then abruptly walked off, sharing a photo on his Instagram Stories a short time later from his private plane with the caption, “Get me to God’s country” over the image of a runway; he later capitalized on the controversy by selling “Get Me to God’s Country” merch. A week later, the show had some fun with the incident in a cold-open bit in which James Austin Johnson’s Donald Trump took a shot at Wallen while discussing the president’s “Liberation Day” tariffs. It’s called Heard and McDonald Island,” Johnson’s Trump said, holding a poster featuring a hula skirt-wearing hamburger.

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