Johnson’s Trump said on “SNL” he was “comparing myself to the son of God once again,” saying people were “comparing me to the messiah because of the ‘Mess-I-Ah’ made out of the economy” from “my beautiful tariffs,” and boasted the tariffs were “working so well that I had to stop them.”

Live" did its best attempt to bring levity to the global economic turmoil sparked by President Donald Trump's uncertain and oft-changing tariffs.