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‘SNL’ takes aim at Trump tariffs with ‘White Lotus’ sketch featuring Scarlett Johansson, Jon Hamm: ‘The White POTUS’

April 13, 2025
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‘SNL’ takes aim at Trump tariffs with ‘White Lotus’ sketch featuring Scarlett Johansson, Jon Hamm: ‘The White POTUS’
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Welcome to The White POTUS.

“Saturday Night Live” spoofed “The White Lotus” with a viral sketch that took aim at President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

“The White POTUS” skit begins with Chloe Fineman as Melania Trump, channeling Parker Posey’s character Victoria Ratliff from the HBO show’s third season set in Thailand.

Chloe Fineman as Melania Trump on “SNL.” NBC / SNL

“Hun? Donald, are you getting ready? Hello? Earth to Donald, it’s your wife, Melania. Are you OK?” Fineman’s Melania says to James Austin Johnson’s Trump, who is eating chicken nuggets out of a pill bottle — a reference to Jason Isaacs’s Timothy Ratliff getting high on lorazepam in the show.

James Austin Johnson as Donald Trump
James Austin Johnson as Donald Trump. NBC / SNL
James Austin Johnson as Donald Trump on “SNL.” NBC / SNL

The mock Ratliff children (Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sam Nivola and Sarah Catherine Hook in the show) include Alex Moffat as Eric Trump, Mikey Day as Donald Trump Jr. and Scarlett Johansson as Ivanka Trump.

“We are so lucky that America will always be a rich and powerful nation. I mean, can you imagine how awful it would be if America lost all its money and no one in the world respected us anymore?” Fineman’s Melania says to her family at the dinner table.

Mikey Day as Donald Trump Jr., Alex Moffat as Eric Trump on “SNL.” NBC / SNL
Scarlett Johansson as Ivanka Trump on “SNL.” NBC / SNL

“You would never let our economy go to pieces, right hun?” she tells Johnson’s Trump, who reads a “Trump Triggers Worldwide Recession” headline on his phone.

As Day’s Trump Jr. tells his dad that his Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is sitting nearby, Jon Gries as Greg in “The White Lotus” appears.

“He says he wants to watch America get bent over and railed by other countries?” Day’s Donald Trump Jr. says, as Fineman’s Melania responds, “You know, some people are just weird. Like that man who arrived on the boat with us, RFK Jr.”

James Austin Johnson playing Trump on “SNL.” NBC / SNL
James Austin Johnson and Mikey Day in the “White Lotus” sketch. NBC / SNL
Jon Gries as Greg in “The White Lotus.” NBC / SNL

The episode’s host Jon Hamm plays Robert F. Kennedy Jr./Walton Goggins’s Rick, who is venting about his “crazy ideas” like wanting to stab everyone with a syringe of measles to Sarah Sherman portraying Aimee Lou Wood’s Chelsea.

Meanwhile, musical guest Lizzo as Natasha Rothwell’s Belinda panics in her hotel room and says, “These old white Trump dudes are trying to ruin my life.” After checking her laptop, she says, “Oh my gosh, there’s $5 million in my bank account. It was $20 million last week.”

Jon Hamm as Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Jon Hamm as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. NBC / SNL
Sarah Sherman as Chelsea from “The White Lotus.” NBC / SNL

The skit also pokes fun at the Carrie Coon, Michelle Monaghan and Leslie Bibb trio, with Heidi Gardner as Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, Ashley Padilla as Attorney General Pam Bondi and Marcello Hernández as Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

“Hey, people like me right?” Hernández’s Rubio (acting as Coon’s Laurie) says to the girls, who walk away from the table to gossip about him.

Heidi Gardner and Ashley Padilla on “SNL.” NBC / SNL
Marcello Hernández on “SNL.” NBC / SNL

Near the end of the sketch, Johnson’s Trump fantasizes about killing Uncle Sam, played by Andrew Dismukes.

“Don’t do it!” Dismukes’s Uncle Sam pleads with Johnson’s Trump, who replies, “I’m gonna do it. I’m gonna put a 500 percent tariff on China.”

James Austin Johnson as Trump
James Austin Johnson as Trump. NBC / SNL
Andrew Dismukes as Uncle Sam
Andrew Dismukes as Uncle Sam. NBC / SNL

But Johnson’s Trump is interrupted by Beck Bennett’s shirtless Vladimir Putin, who rubs the president’s shoulders and says, “What’s the matter, baby?”

Beck Bennett, James Austin Johnson on “SNL.” NBC / SNL

The sketch concludes with a parody of Saxon (Schwarzenegger) and Lochlan Ratliff’s (Nivola) incestuous scene. But this time, it’s Day’s Trump Jr. getting intimate in bed with Kenan Thompson’s Tiger Woods. In real life, Woods is dating Trump Jr.’s ex-wife Vanessa Trump.

The post ‘SNL’ takes aim at Trump tariffs with ‘White Lotus’ sketch featuring Scarlett Johansson, Jon Hamm: ‘The White POTUS’ appeared first on New York Post.

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