‘Me Stabing XI’: SNL Decods Donald Trump’s Trade Tariff Formula | world News
On 5 April, Saturday night Live James stood on a podium with Austin Johnson’s Donald Trump, selling the American public on his latest economic strategy: tariff, or as he says, “small for terrible thoughts.” The sketch was inspired by the press conference on 2 April from Trump’s real life, where he used a shocking chart to explain how his tariff plan was going to save the American economy-and possibly defeated China using the power of geometric confusion.
Standing next to a chart, it seemed that this group was drawn from the project, went wrong, Johnson’s Trump tried to decod his symbols. “This is a triangle,” he said. “I don’t know what he is, but here, he is Xi from China, and he is stabbing me with a sword. And then here below, it’s some sideways B **** – anyway, you get it, your money has gone.”
It was a line that captured everything about the Trumpian approach: confident flels prepared as a revelation. Economics, in this universe, is not about the supply chain or market volatility – it is about vibes, violence and unclearly inappropriate doodles.
This season, reiterating his role as Elon Musk for the third time, enter Mike Myers. One thing wearing a thing-coconsin-customed to impress the race of the Supreme Court, an indication for the real-life attempt of Kasturi-the musk of the myers immediately accepted his mistake: “I should have just bought a visconsin!” This was the correct distillation of the musk-plamp overlap: the idea that politics is not about people, but about the acquisition of property.
Musk also introduced the Tesla Model-V equipped with self-cramping headlights and AI-operated frescoes, “The first electric car in history, also introduced the first electric car to be completely self-evident.
Back to the stage, Trump continued his attempt to sell the tariff scheme, promising the Americans that they would soon be “very rich”, “Magda – Make America Great Depression again before creating the Great Depression.” Sketch a very sharp criticism with a balanced slap: that the economic argument behind these tariffs often seems that it is based on more revenge for the reason.
The scene of Trump “stabbing” on a triangle – whatever the triangle represents – was more than just a joke. It was an ideal metaphor of how political theater often replaces real policy in Trump’s world. Instead of a consistent argument, there is just one diagram, a sword and a punchline.
And perhaps this is the case. When you do not need to explain your policies, whatever is left is a performance. Preferably, with a sword and self-destructive cars.
