“Saturday Night Live” cast member James Austin Johnson returned as Donald Trump during the latest episode’s cold open.
“Saturday Night Live” cast member James Austin Johnson returned as Donald Trump during the latest episode’s cold open to give his version of the president’s recent “Liberation Day” tariff announcement.
During the sequence, Johnson as Trump stood at the podium recreating Trump’s announcement in the Rose Garden, joking that his tariff plan will “make America Great Depression again.”
Last week, Trump announced 10% tariffs on all imports into the United States, and even higher tariffs on goods from about 60 countries or trading blocs that have a high trade deficit with the US.
“We’ll be the ones eating the cats and the dogs,” Johnson as Trump joked on “SNL,” referencing Trump’s comments about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio during the presidential debate in September.
