“Saturday Night Live” opened its latest episode with a Donald Trump impersonator crashing The Last Supper and comparing the previous president’s recent indictment to the persecution of Jesus.
“Alas, one in all you’ll betray me,” said Jesus, played by Mikey Day, on the NBC show. “It’s foretold. And though I even have committed no crime, I will likely be arrested, tried, and located guilty.”
Before Day can proceed, SNL forged 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 in any respect,” Johnson as Trump said, adding, “Should you haven’t put it together folks, I’m comparing myself to Jesus, again.”
“As we speak, I’m being persecuted on a level the likes of which the world has never seen, even worse than the late, great Jesus,” the character said.
On Tuesday, the 76-year-old ex-president was arraigned on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, which totals a monumental 136 years behind bars. Still, if convicted at trial and sentenced, the sentence would likely be drastically less.
“We’re very similar,” the fake Trump said of himself and the Christian messiah.
“We’re each very tall, highly regarded, and each frankly white Americans,” he said of the Galilean Semite.
Johnson’s Trump then began to attract parallels between himself and Jesus, and in typical Trump-fashion noted, “He rose from the dead on the third day. I’d have done it faster. Possibly two days. I feel we could have done it lots faster.”
The character added that his followers were like Jesus’ supporters, “All because I told them exactly what Jesus would have said, ‘Get very violent and begin a war.’”
The character then equated his once-close relationship along with his likely 2024 GOP competitor, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, to the betrayal of Jesus by Judas.
“Ron DeSantis got here 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 love him, after which 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 reduce the miracle of Easter, remarking how he’s “even higher” 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 even have many beautiful eggs from my time on the White House. And now the Department of Justice is saying: ‘Where are the eggs? We want 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 employee, and now they need to put me in jail.”
He 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.
