'Saturday Night Live' Uses Jesus Skit to Mock Trump as Ruining the Economy

Tim Graham
April 13th, 2025 4:16 PM

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The left-wingers at NBC's Saturday Night Live can't seem to start their shows without an anti-Trump skit, and this time, it started out with a Jesus Christ vs. the money-changers theme....until their Fake Trump James Austin Johnson showed up to unload a pile of comedy bits about how terrible the economy is going. 

"It’s me, your favorite president, Donald Jesus Trump, comparing myself to the Son of God once again," he said. "Many people are calling me the Messiah," he says. Because of the mess-I-ah made out of the economy."

He then compared fluctuating stock prices to the resurrection: "It’s true, the stock market did a Jesus. It died, then on the third day it was risen. And then on a fourth day, it died again, possibly never to return. Just like Jesus."

The Jesus bits kept coming. "Jesus Christ is a name we’ve been saying a lot lately," Fake Trump joked. "We look in our 401(k) and say, ‘Jesus Christ, where did it all go?’" And then: "We love Easter. We love bunny. We love hunting for eggs, just like everyone’s doing in the grocery store right now. Because they cost a trillion billion dollars,"

Then came mocking the conservative Christians as secretly gay.

 

"But we love Easter. It's the day where the most homophobic people try to dress as gay as possible. 'Darling, have you seen my bonnet? Daddy looks lovely in his pink seersucker.' We are looking forward to Easter Mass, definitely. Easter Mass is always packed, right? It's sad. Some people only go to church on Christmas and Easter. Not me. I don't go on those days either. But I love to pray. I pray a lot. I pray so much, they call me predator!"

The monologue wrapped up with one last Easter punchline: "In the holiest of seasons, Easter, let us remember the lesson Mr. Jesus taught… we must never mix religion with commerce. You can read all about this in my Trump Bible. Now made in America, so it costs $1,300. And it falls apart even faster."

The hits kept coming. They did a skit about the "Check-to-Check Business News Channel" suggesting the prices of everything is ridiculously unaffordable. Does this skit feel about three years too late? 

Then they aired a pre-recorded satire of the HBO hit The White Lotus, but it was The White POTUS -- "an American Horror Story" --  which mocked not only Trump, but about half the Trump cabinet.

Pop star Lizzo sang a song in a shirt that read “TARIFFIED.”

Then came the fake-news "Weekend Update," which began with this message: 

COLIN JOST: President Trump tried to rescue the economy from the disastrous policies of whoever was president last week. On Wednesday, Trump announced he was pausing most tariffs for 90 days. Now, 90 days may not seem like a long time, but remember, Trump has only been president for 82 days. And it already feels like a goddamn decade!

A few anti-Trump jokes later, cast member Bowen Yang played a Chinese bureaucrat mocking America as that unserious country that's sending Katy Perry into space (don't forget CBS morning host Gayle King!) That's a Jeff Bezos project, not a NASA thing. Then America was compared to Red China: 

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