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(The Hill) — The latest acold unfastened of "Saturday Night Live" recreated President Donald Trump's code astatine the Rose Garden, wherever helium announced sweeping planetary tariffs, and drew disapproval from a one-time big of the show.
In the introductory voice-over, the narrator declared that the tariffs, "like everything other truthful acold successful his presidency, it was a full location run."
Trump, played by James Austin Johnson, went connected to denote the tariffs, which helium said was his favourite connection due to the fact that it was "short for tariff-ic idea," and it was similar a "series of random numbers, similar the numbers connected the machine surface successful 'Severance.'"
He besides said the tariffs were an effort to "Make America Great Depression Again," oregon "MAGDA."
"You cognize what? It’ll beryllium gr — it’ll beryllium amended than great," Johnson's Trump said. "It’ll beryllium a fantastic, unbelievable Depression, the likes of which you’ve ne'er seen before."
The skit besides referenced Trump's effort to levy taxes connected respective uninhabited oregon sparsely populated islands with small to nary exports.
“No state is harmless from my tariffs,” Johnson said. “I adjacent enactment tariffs connected an land that is uninhabited by humans.”
Johnson's Trump besides criticized commercialized with different countries, including South Africa.
"They’ve ne'er adjacent sent america 1 bully thing," helium said earlier Mike Myers's Elon Musk, wearing a food hat, a notation to Musk's recent visit to Wisconsin, joined the stage. The tech billionaire flew to Wisconsin the Sunday earlier the authorities Supreme Court predetermination to manus retired $1 cardinal checks to aggregate voters who signed his petition against “activist judges.”
“What astir me?” Myers's Musk asked.
“That was from erstwhile I tried to bargain the predetermination successful Wisconsin," helium added. "I’m an idiot. I should person conscionable bought Wisconsin.”
“Suddenly, nary 1 likes Tesla cars,” helium continued. “So I asked myself wherefore and past I answered myself: due to the fact that of me.” He went connected to play a video that introduced a caller Tesla that helium described arsenic “the archetypal electrical car successful past to beryllium afloat self-vandalizing.”
Reports of vandalism astatine Tesla dealerships have spiked much broadly since Musk took the spotlight alongside Trump, particularly erstwhile the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) began its purge of national workers and backing for overseas assistance programs.
In effect to the skit, Musk wrote connected his societal media level X that SNL "hasn't been comic successful a agelong time."
"They are their ain parody," the one-time "SNL" big wrote.
