'SNL' mocked for their 'woke smugness' after claiming Trump made up the term 'de-banking'

NBC’s "Saturday Night Live" was mocked after suggesting the term "de-banking" was a made-up word by former President Trump.

During the "Weekend Update" segment, cast member Colin Jost insisted he didn’t know "what the hell ‘de-bank’ means" while commenting on one of Trump's recent speeches.

"Trump did have a slight stumble this week while talking about banks, and he introduced an interesting new term called de-bank," Jost said. "I don't know what the hell de-bank means, but you might have to take ‘de-ambulance’ to see ‘de-doctor.’"

However, de-banking, or de-risking, is a real term used to refer to banks closing people or organizations’ accounts, sometimes without appeal, after perceiving them to be a legal, financial or reputational threat.

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The clip went viral as social media users mocked the show for not understanding an increasingly prevalent term.

"The woke smugness from SNL is out of control," conservative commentator Steve Guest wrote.

Twitchy’s Doug Powers commented, "SNL’s in such a hurry to dunk on Trump that they made themselves look like idiots again."

"That’s pretty embarrassing for SNL," attorney Casey Mattox wrote.

California State Senate candidate Michael Oxford explained, "This is similar to when Dennis Prager said they are putting tampons in men’s bathrooms, and Bill Maher‘s entire audience laughed at him. The left doesn’t realize what’s happening, until it’s too late. Then their cognitive dissonance forces them to justify why it’s a good thing."

"The left debanks while the right debunks," writer Scott Adams noted.

Former Trump official Michael Caputo joked, "@ColinJost what’s it like to unintentionally make a complete joke