Donald Trump Roasts Saturday Night Live's Season 50 Cast in the 2025 Easter Cold Open
"Hi it's me, Donald 'Jesus' Trump," James Austin Johnson told the April 12 audience as his castmates did their best to stay frozen behind him.
Candy-filled baskets, festive bonnets, and Sunday mass are all Easter traditions — and Saturday Night Live continued one of its own on Jon Hamm's April 12 episode. The "Trump Easter 2025 Cold Open" was the third annual sketch to have James Austin Johnson's pitch-perfect Donald Trump address the audience, likening himself to the son of God more than once. As with the first installment in Season 48, the rest of the Season 50 cast was tasked with staying perfectly still in the background, and Johnson had some real fun getting a few to break.
Or, in Kenan Thompson's case, to walk off altogether.
The sketch opened with the cast reenacting the scene in the Bible in which Jesus (Mikey Day) grows angry at merchants selling goods in a temple, throwing them out and flipping their tables. As cast members Day, Devon Walker, Michael Longfellow (masterfully) freeze mid-table flip, Johnson's Trump steps in to ask, "Remind you of anyone?"
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James Austin Johnson's Trump roasts Mikey Day, Ego Nwodim in SNL's 2025 Easter cold open
"I also got rid of money last week, but instead of one temple, I did whole country, maybe even the globe," he continued. "The money's gone. Hi! It's me, your favorite president, Donald 'Jesus Trump."
Sharing that "many people are even calling me the Messiah, because of the Mess-I-ah made out of the economy," Trump added that "the stock market did a Jesus: It died. Then on the third day, it was risen. And then, on the fourth day, it died again, possibly never to return, just like Jesus. Where the heck is that guy? Come back! Get me out of this!"
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Trump soon pivoted his attention to the stock-still scene behind him, calling out individual cast members.
"Look at Jesus back there, flipping the table like a Real Housewife. Teresa," he riffed. "Look at Emil Wakim. 'Featuring Emil Wakim.' He thinks he should be playing Jesus! He was telling everybody backstage, 'You know, the real Jesus would have looked like me IRL.' But we don't like to think about that, so we have Mikey Day there with this big, beautiful blue eyes."
Moving on from freshman cast member Wakim (who, between this and his "Weekend Update" appearance had a pretty good week), Johnson's Trump skewered Day's March ad campaign as the performer unfroze to shake his head. "He's like, 'Oh, no, wait. My Great Clips money. I need my Great Clips money!'"
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"Look at Sarah Sherman, stuck with her mouth open, bad choice," he later pointed out, as Sherman tried not to laugh (while still keeping her mouth agape). "Hey, Kenan's back there, too. I love Kenan!"
"Yeah. I'm leaving," SNL's longest-running cast member said, walking away.
"Okay, I guess it's Kenan, so he can go. Ego's thinking about it, she wants to. Oh, she's thinking about walking," Trump/Johnson joked, as Nwodim visibly tried not to smile.
"'Do I have the juice to scoot?' I don't know. She had a big hit last week, Miss Eggy," he said, referencing her viral April 5 "Weekend Update" appearance. "But she's not going do it. 'Cause these men ain't what? Don't say it, don't say it. We'll get in trouble."
"But in the holiest of seasons, Easter, let us remember the lesson that Mr. Jesus taught us when he went buckwild on those money-changers," Trump said. "We must never mix religion with commerce. You can read all about that in my Trump Bible, now made in America so it costs $1,300 and it falls apart even faster."
Watch the "Trump Easter 2025 Cold Open" from Season 50, Episode 17 above.
