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With Easter on the horizon, it was fitting for “Saturday Night Live” to bring back a beloved sketch: a biblical scene that gets interrupted by a comedic monologue from James Austin Johnson as President Trump.
This weekend’s episode, hosted by Jon Hamm and featuring Lizzo as the musical guest, kicked off with what appeared to be a faithful re-creation of the Cleansing of the Temple, with Mikey Day portraying Jesus. “This will not stand,” Day declared, flipping over a money changer’s table.“I will purify this location of all its riches.”
The action paused to allow Johnson to step in as Trump. “Remind you of anyone?” he quipped. “Wow. I also disposed of my money last week. But instead of just one temple, I did it to the entire country. Maybe even the whole globe. The money has disappeared.”
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Johnson continued: “Hello, it’s me, your beloved president, Donald Jesus Trump, once more comparing myself to the son of God. You know, people are even calling me the messiah because of the mess I made of the economy.”
He claimed that the financial chaos was “all due to my beautiful tariffs — they are truly stunning. They were yielding great results, which is why I had to end them.”
According to Johnson, the stock market “did a Jesus — it perished.”
“Then on the third day, it came back to life,” he went on. “And on the fourth day, it crashed again, potentially never to recover, just like Jesus. Where is that guy? Come back, get me out of this. And the name Jesus Christ has been spoken frequently lately. We keep saying it. We look at our 401(k) and exclaim, ‘Jesus Christ, where did everything go?’”
Johnson included a few timely jokes about Passover and Easter, commenting, “We enjoy searching for eggs, just like everyone is doing in the grocery store right now, given that they’re priced at a trillion, billion dollars.”
In conclusion, Johnson urged viewers to “remember the lesson Mister Jesus imparted when he went berserk on those money changers: We must never blend religion with commerce.”