‘Saturday Night Live’ roasts Trump’s tariff chaos of biblical proportions
- 'Saturday Night Live' featured James Austin Johnson portraying Donald Trump in a comedic sketch that related trade issues to biblical themes.
- The sketch highlighted Trump's troubled relationship with Wall Street and the global trade war.
- Johnson, as Trump, humorously stated that people are calling him 'the Messiah because the mess-I-ah made out of the economy.'
- Johnson's Trump described his time at a fictional place called the White Lotus as uncomfortable.
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