{"id":138715,"date":"2025-04-13T12:08:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T12:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/13\/weekend-update-tackles-trumps-about-face-with-tariffs\/"},"modified":"2025-04-13T12:08:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T12:08:15","slug":"weekend-update-tackles-trumps-about-face-with-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/13\/weekend-update-tackles-trumps-about-face-with-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Update Tackles Trump&#8217;s About-Face With Tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/weekend-update\/\" id=\"auto-tag_weekend-update\" data-tag=\"weekend-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Weekend Update<\/a> was stuffed with zingers about President <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" id=\"auto-tag_donald-trump\" data-tag=\"donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2018s speedy about-face within the wake of the inventory market crash his international <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/tariffs\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tariffs\" data-tag=\"tariffs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tariffs<\/a> spurred.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCo-anchor Colin Jost kicked off the <em>Saturday Night Live <\/em>section by quipping that POTUS \u201ctried to rescue the economy from the disastrous policies of whoever was president last week.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAddressing company CEOs\u2019 shock on the aggressive tariffs, the late-night present performed a supercut of Trump\u2019s affinity for tariffs, one thing voiced typically throughout his presidential marketing campaign. \u201cIt\u2019s like listening to Bubba Gump talk about shrimp,\u201d Jost remarked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMeanwhile, co-host <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/michael-che\/\" id=\"auto-tag_michael-che\" data-tag=\"michael-che\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Che<\/a> chimed in, calling into query Trump\u2019s declare that the financial downturn was like <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/more-than-50-countries-have-contacted-white-house-start-trade-talks-trump-2025-04-06\/\" target=\"_blank\">treating an ailment<\/a>: \u201cYeah, but this feels like we took a whole bottle of medicine with a glass of vodka and laid in a warm bath.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tChe additionally obtained the most important response of the night time, together with his one-liner: \u201cIt was reported that Elon Musk personally appealed to President Trump to stop his tariff plan, and it worked! The stock market went up like this,\u201d he mentioned, enthusiastically, as an image of Musk\u2019s Nazi-like salute flashed on display, eliciting exclamations from the viewers.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"GIjuPeM7v_g\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Weekend Update: Tesla Having Trouble Selling Cybertrucks, New AI-Powered Sex Doll - SNL\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GIjuPeM7v_g?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLater on, Weekend Update featured a trio of visitor appearances from <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nbcsnl\/status\/1911276858013802638\" target=\"_blank\">Bowen Yang who resurrected his recurring Chinese commerce minister Chen Biao<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nbcsnl\/status\/1911277870296543384\" target=\"_blank\">Emil Wakim and his notes on American patriotism<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nbcsnl\/status\/1911278620120698974\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Sherman as Jost\u2019s fictitious accountant Dawn Altman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSome one-liner highlights from every:<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cSo the next time you buy a pair of Tom\u2019s, they\u2019ll donate another pair to you, because you\u2019re the one in need, you poor bitch!\u201d Yang exclaimed in reference to the dire state of the American economic system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWakim, who entered the Weekend Update desk with mini American flags in tow, started, \u201cThis was just to buy me some good will before the stuff I\u2019m about to say, but it\u2019s a tough time to criticize America publicly, especially with eyebrows like this.\u201d True to his stand-up roots, the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/snl\/\" id=\"auto-tag_snl\" data-tag=\"snl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SNL<\/a> <\/em>rookie\u2019s three-minute set launched into cracks concerning the \u201ccruelty\u201d of on a regular basis interactions with Uber Eats drivers that borderline on \u201cracist\u201d after shoppers order a \u201c$40 burrito\u201d as a deal with following a \u201chard day sending emails for Hitler or whatever anyone\u2019s job is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSherman, in pitch good misery as Dawn Altman, ended her time on Weekend Update by placing her head by way of the again wall of the set, exclaiming that there have been \u201cso many\u201d ladies tied up contained in the wall, which prompted a set of sure fingers to come back out of the torn wallpaper. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Weekend Update was stuffed with zingers about President Donald Trump\u2018s speedy about-face within the wake of the inventory market crash his international tariffs spurred. Co-anchor Colin Jost kicked off the Saturday Night Live section by quipping that POTUS \u201ctried to rescue the economy from the disastrous policies of whoever was president last week.\u201d Addressing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":138718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[9057,9056,9044,656,598,682],"class_list":{"0":"post-138715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-aboutface","9":"tag-tackles","10":"tag-tariffs","11":"tag-trumps","12":"tag-update","13":"tag-weekend"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}