'Saturday Night Live' takes aim at Trump in newest parody
The
latest episode of Saturday Night Live began with an Easter Sunday spoof of
the Last Supper.
“Alas, one of you will betray me… and though I
have committed no crime, I will be arrested, tried, and found guilty,” said
Mikey Day’s Jesus.
“Sound familiar?!” exclaimed Donald Trump, played by James Austin
Johnson, who goes on to compare his recent arrest in New York on 34 felony
counts of falsifying business records to what happened with Jesus.
“A
famous, wonderful man arrested for no reason at all. If you haven’t put it
together, folks, I’m comparing myself to Jesus again, and what better time
than on his birthday, Easter,” offered SNL’s Trump.
“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.”
“You know, many people are saying we’re very similar. We’re
both very tall, very popular, and both, frankly, white Americans,” he
continued. “You know, Jesus did some incredible things. Some would call them
Miracles, in terms of fish and with regard to bread. Fish and bread, you
know. He rose from the dead on the third day; I would have done it
faster…”
Trump went on to compare his rival Ron DeSantis to
Judas, who can’t even “get the gays out of Disney World.”
“They
will come for me, lock me away, because just like Jesus all I did was be
friendly to a s** worker, and now they want to put me in jail,” he
added.
