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April 13, 2025
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Saturday Night Live: ‘Stock market did a Jesus’: SNL roasts Donald Trump’s tariff chaos in Easter special

‘Stock market did a Jesus’: SNL roasts Donald Trump’s tariff chaos in Easter special In a cheeky start to its Easter episode, Saturday Night Live turned its lens on US President Donald Trump’s handling of the US economy, using biblical imagery to mock Trump’s erratic tariff decisions. The sketch began with a reimagining of the […]

April 7, 2025
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World

‘Me stabbing Xi’: SNL decodes Donald Trump’s trade tariff formula | World News

On April 5, Saturday Night Live opened with James Austin Johnson’s Donald Trump standing at a podium, selling the American public on his latest economic strategy: tariffs, or as he calls them, “short for terrific idea.” The sketch was inspired by Trump’s real-life April 2 press conference, where he used a baffling chart to explain […]