NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” opened its latest episode with an Easter-themed sketch that had former President Donald Trump crashing The Last Supper and comparing his recent indictment to the persecution of Jesus.
“Alas, one of you will betray me,” said Jesus, played by Mikey Day. “It is foretold. And though I have committed no crime, I will be arrested, tried, and found guilty.”
Before Day can continue, SNL cast member James Austin Johnson-as-Trump entered the fray to ask viewers if the plight of the son of God sounded familiar.
“A famous, wonderful man arrested for no reason at all,” Johnson as Trump said, adding, “If you haven’t put it together folks, I’m comparing myself to Jesus, again.”
Johnson continued, “As we speak, I am being persecuted on a level the likes of which the world has never seen, even worse than the late, great Jesus.”
On Tuesday, the 76-year-old ex-president was indicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, which totals a monumental 136 years behind bars. If convicted at trial and sentenced, however, the sentence would likely be drastically less.
“We’re very similar,” the fake Trump said of himself and the Christian messiah.
“We’re both very tall, very popular, and both frankly white Americans,” he said of the Galilean Semite.
Johnson’s Trump then began to draw parallels between himself and Jesus, and in typical Trump-fashion noted, “He rose from the dead on the third day. I would have done it faster. Possibly two days. I think we could have done it a lot faster.”
The character then said that his followers were like Jesus’, “All because I told them exactly what Jesus would have said, ‘Get very violent and start a war.’”
The character then equated his once-close relationship with his likely 2024 GOP competitor Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to the betrayal of Jesus by Judas.
“Ron DeSantis came to me, tears in his eyes, he said, ‘Help me, Mr. Trump, I’m going to lose my election,’” the character said. “So, I very generously pretended to like him, and then he did a Judas, and now he can’t even get the gays out of Disney World.”
Johnson’s Trump couldn’t resist trying to lessen the miracle of Easter, remarking how he’s “even better” than Jesus because he’s a self-made billionaire, whereas Jesus was a “nepo baby,” fathered directly by God himself.
Circling back to Easter, Johnson-as-Trump compared Easter eggs to the trove of classified documents found at his home saying, “I have many beautiful eggs from my time at the White House. And now the Department of Justice is saying: ‘Where are the eggs? We need the eggs back.’ But I hid them. They’re my eggs. They’re my eggs to take, OK?’”
The fake Trump even compared Stormy Daniels to Mary Magdalene, saying “all I did was be friendly to a sex worker, and now they want to put me in jail.”
He then noted that he was looking forward to an “Easter hamburger” that he would eat “hopefully” without his family.
SNL-alum Molly Shannon hosted the episode, which featured musical performances from The Jonas Brothers.
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