SNL Mocks Arrested Trump, Who Compares Himself to Jesus on Easter – Rolling Stone

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On the Saturday night before Easter, live from Studio 8H, Saturday Night Live kicked off with a cold-open Easter Sunday spoof of the Last Supper.

“Alas, one of you will betray me… and even though I have committed no crime, I will be arrested, tried, and found guilty,” said Mikey Day’s Jesus Christ.

“Sounds familiar?!” exclaimed Donald Trump, played by James Austin Johnson, who went on to compare his recent arrest in New York on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to what happened to a Jesus Christ.

“A famous, wonderful man who was arrested for no reason. If you haven’t put it together yet, folks, I’m comparing myself to Jesus again, and what better time than on his birthday, Easter,” Trump offered on SNL. “As we speak, I am being persecuted to a degree the world has never seen – worse than the late, great Jesus.” Trending

“You know, many people say that we look alike. We’re both very tall, very popular, and both, frankly, white Americans,” he continued. “You know, Jesus did incredible things. Some will call them Miracles, in terms of fish and bread. Fish and bread, you know. He rose from the dead on the third day; I wish I had done it faster…”

Trump went on to compare his rival Ron DeSantis to Judas, who couldn’t even “get the gays out of Disney World,” before declaring that Jesus was a “nepo baby” who was inferior to Trump. “They will come for me, put me in jail, because like Jesus all I did was be friendly with a sex worker, and now they want to put me in jail,” he added.

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