The left-wingers at NBC’s Saturday Night time Stay can not seem to begin their exhibits with out an anti-Trump skit, and this time, it began out with a Jesus Christ vs. the money-changers theme….till their Pretend Trump James Austin Johnson confirmed as much as unload a pile of comedy bits about how horrible the financial system goes.
“It’s me, your favourite president, Donald Jesus Trump, evaluating myself to the Son of God as soon as once more,” he mentioned. “Many individuals are calling me the Messiah,” he says. Due to the mess-I-ah made out of the financial system.”
He then in contrast fluctuating inventory costs to the resurrection: “It’s true, the inventory market did a Jesus. It died, then on the third day it was risen. After which on a fourth day, it died once more, probably by no means to return. Identical to Jesus.”
The Jesus bits saved coming. “Jesus Christ is a reputation we’ve been saying rather a lot recently,” Pretend Trump joked. “We glance in our 401(okay) and say, ‘Jesus Christ, the place did all of it go?’” After which: “We love Easter. We love bunny. We love trying to find eggs, identical to everybody’s doing within the grocery retailer proper now. As a result of they price a trillion billion {dollars},”
Then got here mocking the conservative Christians as secretly homosexual.
“However we love Easter. It is the day the place essentially the most homophobic individuals attempt to gown as homosexual as attainable. ‘Darling, have you ever seen my bonnet? Daddy appears pretty in his pink seersucker.’ We’re wanting ahead to Easter Mass, positively. Easter Mass is all the time packed, proper? It is unhappy. Some individuals solely go to church on Christmas and Easter. Not me. I do not go on these days both. However I really like to hope. I pray rather a lot. I pray a lot, they name me predator!”
The monologue wrapped up with one final Easter punchline: “Within the holiest of seasons, Easter, allow us to keep in mind the lesson Mr. Jesus taught… we must not ever combine faith with commerce. You’ll be able to learn all about this in my Trump Bible. Now made in America, so it prices $1,300. And it falls aside even sooner.”
The hits saved coming. They did a skit concerning the “Examine-to-Examine Enterprise Information Channel” suggesting the costs of every little thing is ridiculously unaffordable. Does this skit really feel about three years too late?
Then they aired a pre-recorded satire of the HBO hit The White Lotus, but it surely was The White POTUS — “an American Horror Story” — which mocked not solely Trump, however about half the Trump cupboard.
Pop star Lizzo sang a tune in a shirt that learn “TARIFFIED.”
Then got here the fake-news “Weekend Replace,” which started with this message:
COLIN JOST: President Trump tried to rescue the financial system from the disastrous insurance policies of whoever was president final week. On Wednesday, Trump introduced he was pausing most tariffs for 90 days. Now, 90 days could not look like a very long time, however keep in mind, Trump has solely been president for 82 days. And it already appears like a goddamn decade!
A couple of anti-Trump jokes later, solid member Bowen Yang performed a Chinese language bureaucrat mocking America as that unserious nation that is sending Katy Perry into house (remember CBS morning host Gayle King!) That is a Jeff Bezos challenge, not a NASA factor. Then America was in comparison with Purple China:
Trump-bashing srsly heavy on ‘Saturday Night time Stay.’ No ‘reality checkers’ will get entangled when Bowen Yang’s Chinese language bureaucrat on Weekend Replace says:
“Now that everybody in America is dropping all their cash and rights, it is sort of like we’re each Communist Twins!” pic.twitter.com/JWi3pnZfnC
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) April 13, 2025
