Multiple sketches tackled the same topic that has preoccupied much of the country this week: the economic instability brought on by President Donald Trump's imposition of sweeping global tariffs (which he then paused on countries that aren't China for 90 days). SNL explored the subject in several different ways; some were more genuinely amusing than others, but all captured the anxiety many Americans are feeling, across class lines. Even the musical guest, Lizzo, wore a shirt that read Tariffied during her first number. The theme first cropped up in the cold open, which began ostensibly as a sketch about Easter'specifically about Jesus expelling money changers during an act known as the cleansing of the temple. But just when Mikey Day, playing Jesus, tipped over a table, the scene paused and the cast froze. Then James Austin Johnson as Trump entered, breaking the fourth wall as a kind of meta-narrator: Commenting on the temple scene behind him, he cracked jokes about the cost of...
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