Saturday Night Live is a comparison with the Easter-themed opener, this time with Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson) with the Son of God.
Johnson, as Trump said, “You know, many people even call me the Messiah because I, ah, are made from the economy.”
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“Or because of my beautiful tariffs – so beautiful – they work so well and I had to stop them.”
After the bond market shows that the U.S. economy is about to break out of the cliff, what is coming is a partial pullback from Trump to a key economic focus – blanket tariffs. The stock market was sore when Trump paused, but once again sank out of concern about 145% tariffs from key trading partners China.
Sketch and Mikey Day open as Jesus as Jesus, reappearing from the Bible where Christ visited the temple and getting angry at seeing currency exchangers trading business within their walls.
Jesus said, “This will not stand. I will get rid of the position of all the money.”
Then, Trump entered.
“Remind you anybody?” Trump said. “I got rid of money last week, too, but I made an entire country, not a temple.”
It was the second week in a row that the show deceived Trump’s tariffs as Johnson satirized the president’s introduction of the new policy in the opener last week.
By then, the market had taken the nose. This week, Trump and his team insisted that they would not back down on tariffs. But by Wednesday, the president did announce the truth about socializing, and there will be a 90-day pause. But the protracted trade war with China remained concerned. Earlier today, news came that iPhones and other computer products would be exempt from the policy.
“We have to stop,” Johnson’s Trump explained. “But now everything is back to its original state, minus trillions of dollars and transfer wealth from the middle class to my partner.”
The short play also mocked Trump’s loose embrace of religion.
“Today is the first day of Passover for our Jewish friends, and we call it Passover because that’s the little kosher part we walked through the grocery store. We went straight to that Easter candy.
He added: “We love Easter. We love rabbits. We love searching for eggs – like everyone does right now in the grocery store because they cost a billion dollars, a trillion dollars. But I think that’s the purpose of the whole campaign, but I just can’t crack it. The egg joke.
He continued, “We absolutely look forward to Easter Mass.” “Easter Mass is always packed, right? You know, it’s sad. Some people only go to church on Christmas and Easter. Not me. I don’t go either on those days.”
Johnson broke the fourth wall in the sketch, as he pointed out Emil Wakim standing next to him, and said: “He thought he should be playing Jesus. He told everyone in the backstage, ‘You know, the real Jesus looks like me.
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