The Wisconsin Supreme Court race that set spending records and got national attention entered the “Saturday Night Live” conversation thanks to the person who made himself the main character in the election: Elon Musk.

The world’s richest person poured in a ton of money in the race as he attempted to get the conservative candidate elected and even held million-dollar giveaways in Green Bay while wearing a cheesehead, the famed accessory of the Green Bay Packers.

But his money wasn’t enough. His candidate lost handily by 10-percentage points, a rarity in purple Wisconsin.

Now, just a few days after the race, Musk’s involvement in the race got the cold open treatment on “SNL.”

SNL cold open features Elon Musk wearing a cheesehead alongside Donald Trump

Mike Myers, who has played Musk this season, came out while James Austin Johnson’s Donald Trump began the skit discussing the tariffs his administration imposed on other countries this week.

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“We need to send a message to countries who have been ripping us off like South Africa,” Johnson’s Trump said. “South Africa puts a 60% tariff on everything we send them, and they’ve never even sent us one good thing.”

Enter Myers’ Musk.

“But what about me?” Myers asked.

Myers walked out wearing a cheesehead just as he did during the event in Green Bay last Sunday. He threw it off and then noted: “That was from when I tried to buy the election in Wisconsin. I’m an idiot, I should have just bought Wisconsin.”

Musk, the South African-born billionaire and close ally to President Trump, gave away three $1 million checks to people in Wisconsin ahead of the Supreme Court race. Wisconsin’s attorney general Josh Kaul’s lawsuits against Musk for his million-dollar giveaways were rejected.

Musk, who owns Tesla and the social media platform X, was the largest donor in the race and spent over $20 million in trying to get Waukesha County Judge Brad Schimel elected to Wisconsin’s highest court.

But Dane County Judge Susan Crawford cruised to a victory over Trump-endorsed Schimel. After the election, Musk wrote on X that he “expected to lose” the race.

Crawford addressed Musk in her victory speech on Tuesday.

“As a little girl growing up in Chippewa Falls, I never could have imagined that I’d be taking on the richest man in the world for justice in Wisconsin,” she said. “And we won.”

Crawford previously called Musk’s cash giveaways “immoral” and that his involvement in the race motivated her voters to get out.

Watch SNL cold open

SNL musical guests feature Wisconsin connection

The musical guests on Saturday’s SNL also had a Wisconsin connection.

Milwaukee’s own SistaStrings played alongside Elton John and Brandi Carlile, who were the musical guests.

It was the second time sisters Chauntee and Monique Ross played with Carlile on “SNL.”