[WATCH] Trump Compares Himself To Jesus In ‘SNL’ Chilly Open

When Donald Trump was indicted last week, it didn’t trigger his die-hard followers to get up and soar ship. Fairly the other. As predicted, it energized the MAGA wing of the GOP. Considered one of his extra outstanding disciples, Marjorie Taylor Greene, even compared him to both Nelson Mandela and Jesus Christ. (She wasn’t the first to do so.) In spite of everything, they had been arrested, too. In so doing, she handed the SNL writing workforce an Easter present.

The most recent episode kicked off with an Easter particular, that includes Mikey Day as Jesus, recreating the Final Supper together with his disciples. At one level, Day’s Jesus declares that he has “dedicated no crime” and predicted that he will probably be “arrested, tried, and located responsible.”

“Sound acquainted?” says James Austin Johnson’s Trump as he interrupts the recreation to seek out similarities, regardless of how blasphemous, between himself and the son of God, who he describes as a “well-known, great man arrested for no motive in any respect.” He then made his level all of the extra clear, saying, “In case you haven’t put it collectively people, I’ve in contrast myself to Jesus, once more.”

He added, “And what higher time than on his birthday, Easter.”

Loads of SNL’s Trump sketches go far into absurdism, however this one — certainly one of their higher digs on the former president — really sounds eerily near one thing he’d actually say at his rallies, when he goes means off-script and says issues that ought to offend his evangelical base — however don’t.

As an illustration, whereas evaluating himself to Christ, he couldn’t assist however declare he was higher. “He rose from the lifeless on the third day. “I might have executed it sooner,” he stated. He then referred to as Jesus a “nepo child,” in fact ignoring that he’s, too.

Trump did discover one other level of comparability between himself and Jesus, one which he wouldn’t admit out loud as a result of it might be self-incriminating, saying that “identical to Jesus, all I did was be pleasant to a intercourse employee and now they wish to put me in jail.”

You may watch the sketch within the video above.