Saturday Night Live Tok a swing against Donald Trump’s rates in his cold Easter open, joking that the United States stock market “made a Jesus.”
The parody began with a parody of the “cleaning of the temple”, where Jesus of Mikey Day promised to purge the temple of Jerusalem of “all his money.”
Trump entered, played by James Austin Johnson, stating: “The money has left.”
“It’s me, your favorite president, Donald Jesus Trump, comparing myself with the Son of God once more,” Trump said of Johnson. “You know, many people call me the messiah due to the disaster I made of the economy.”
Trump’s character said that the rates were so “effective” that he had to disconnect, saying that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney committed himself to an agreement.
“I said, let me cook, and then I burned the dinner badly, so we had to stop,” he said. “But now, everything has come back as it was, except a few billion dollars and a historical transfer of wealth from the middle class to my friends.”
“Oh, well. It’s true,” he added. “The stock market made a Jesus. He died, then on the third day he got up, and then, on the fourth day, he died again, never to return, just like Jesus.”
Behind the satire there was a turbulent week on Wall Street. The stocks initially joined in the middle of the week after Trump announced a pause in his radical tariffs, but the profits evaporated after he doubled the rates directed to China. The three main indices fell, eliminating most of the previous optimism.
As Easter approached, Johnson’s Trump wrapped with one last soap: “Jesus Christ is the name we have a lot, he says a lot.” “I don’t know, but we are going to fix that. Or not. We’ll see. It should be interesting.”
You can see the complete cold open through the clip above. Jon Hamm lodged SNL Last night with the musical guest Lizzo.