Another year, another Easter monologue by President Donald Trump on “Saturday Night Live.”

For the third consecutive year, the sketch show celebrated Easter on Saturday with a cold open where Trump (James Austin Johnson) spoke directly to the audience and compared himself to Jesus. This time, the monologue drew a parallel between Jesus’ cleansing of the Temple and the economic uncertainty that followed Trump’s April 2 tariffs announcement.

After Jesus (Mikey Day) declared at the start of the sketch that he would “rid this place of all its money,” Trump entered and asked, “Remind you of anyone? Wow, I also got rid of money last week, but instead of one temple, I did whole country, maybe even the globe. The money’s gone!”

Trump continued by calling himself “the Messiah” because of “the mess I made out of the economy.” On Wednesday, the real Trump announced a 90-day pause on some of his tariffs to countries other than China. So in the “SNL” cold open, Johnson’s Trump declared his “beautiful” tariffs were “working so well that I had to stop them.”

“But now, everything is back exactly how it was, minus a few trillion dollars,” he said, adding, “The stock market did a Jesus: It died, then on the third day it was risen, and then on the fourth day, it died again, possibly never to return.”

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Trump’s tariffs were a theme that continued throughout Saturday’s “SNL” episode. Another sketch depicted a financial news show for people living paycheck to paycheck, which discussed how Americans can save money amid market turmoil.

Playing an international commodities correspondent, Kenan Thompson said, “I used to eat Cap’n Crunch cereal before the price went up, so today, I buy this: Sergeant Munch. Lower rank, lower price, flavor bad.”

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Trump’s tariffs also factored into a parody of “The White Lotus,” with a sketch titled “The White Potus” slotting Trump and his allies into the HBO show’s third season.

In “The White Lotus,” Jason Isaacs played a man on vacation who doesn’t want his wealthy family to find out that they’re about to lose everything they have when they go back home. So the sketch imagined Trump having that same reaction while on vacation and seeing he has triggered a recession in the United States.

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“We are so lucky that America will always be a rich and powerful nation,” said Melania Trump (Chloe Fineman), who was modeled off of Parker Posey’s “White Lotus” character. “Can you imagine how awful it would be if America lost all of its money and no one in the world respected us anymore?”

“You would never let our economy go to pieces, right hun?” she asked Trump.

The sketch also featured host Jon Hamm as Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Sarah Sherman as a parody of Aimee Lou Wood’s “White Lotus” character Chelsea, and even a cameo by Scarlett Johansson as Ivanka Trump, who was shown fleeing a monastery like Piper on the HBO show.

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Johansson wasn’t the only A-lister to make a cameo in Saturday’s episode. Oscar-winner Kieran Culkin also popped up during Hamm’s monologue, just after the “Mad Men” star joked that cameos can help energize a monologue that’s “feeling aimless.”

While Culkin was there, Hamm, pretending to be upset that the actor was upstaging him, swiped, “‘Mad Men’ was better than ‘Succession.'”

This was the second week in a row that Culkin, who’s performing in “Glengarry Glen Ross” on Broadway, appeared on “SNL.” He was also seen as a member of the audience clapping along while Jack Black danced through the crowd during last week’s monologue.