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Saturday Night Live went with an Easter-themed opener, this time with Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson) comparing himself to the son of God. “You know, many people are even calling me the Messiah — because of the mess I, ah, made out of the economy,” Johnson as Trump said. More from Deadline “Or because of my beautiful tariffs — so beautiful — they were working so well that I had to stop them.
” The riff was on Trump’s partial pullback on a key economy priority — blanket tariffs — after the bond markets signaled that the U.S. economy was about to fall off a cliff.
The stock market soured when Trump put them on pause, but stocks sank again out of concern over the 145% tariffs on key trading partner China. The sketch opened with Mikey Day as Jesus, recreating the scene from the Bible in which Christ visits the temple and gets enraged at seeing money changers transacting business within its walls. “This will not stand.
I will rid this place of all its money,” Jesus said. Then, Trump entered. “Remind you of anyone?” Trump said.
“I also got rid of money last week, but instead of one temple, I did a whole country.” More to come. Best of Deadline Sign up for Deadline's Newsletter .
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