{"id":2420414,"date":"2025-04-06T10:15:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T14:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/snl-tells-musk-its-time-to-never-see-you-again-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-04-06T10:15:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T14:15:58","slug":"snl-tells-musk-its-time-to-never-see-you-again-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/snl-tells-musk-its-time-to-never-see-you-again-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"SNL tells Musk: &#8216;It&#8217;s time to never see you again&#8217; &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsnl-tells-musk-its-time-to-never-see-you-again-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2420414&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-times-issues-multiple-corrections-for-article-falsely-claiming-900000-u-s-children-have-been-hospitalized-for-covid-19-during-pandemic\/\" title=\"New York Times Issues Multiple Corrections For Article Falsely Claiming 900,000 U.S. Children Have Been Hospitalized For COVID-19 During Pandemic\">article discusses<\/a> a recent episode of *Saturday Night Live* (SNL), which featured a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/snl-wastes-no-time-in-tearing-apart-trumps-return-to-office-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"... wastes no time in tearing apart ...s return to office - Washington Examiner\">cold open segment<\/a> that humorously critiqued president Donald Trump&#8217;s economic policies and tariffs. Cast member James Austin Johnson impersonated Trump while explaining new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reid-rasner-throws-hat-in-the-ring-as-potential-tiktok-buyer\/\" title=\"Reid Rasner throws hat in the ring as potential TikTok buyer\">tariffs set<\/a> to take effect against 86 countries, involving a baseline tariff of 10%. Johnson jokingly introduced the phrase &#8220;MAWA&#8221; (Make America Wealthy Again) only to later declare, \u201cwe\u2019re going to do MAGDA\u201d (Make America Great Depression Again), emphasizing the potential negative impact of these tariffs on the economy.<\/p>\n<p>In the same segment, Johnson referenced South africa&#8217;s high tariffs on U.S. goods, leading to a comedic interaction with comedian Mike Myers, who impersonated Elon Musk. Johnson quipped about Musk needing to return to Tesla due to the company&#8217;s recent challenges,including vandalism incidents against Tesla vehicles. The skit encapsulated the critique of the economic environment during Trump&#8217;s presidency, layering humor over serious themes regarding tariffs and trade policy.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">SNL pokes fun at Trump economy and tells Musk: &lsquo;It&rsquo;s time to never see you again&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2083693\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/saturday-night-live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Saturday Night Live<\/a> <\/em>dedicated its cold open segment to President Donald Trump&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/economy\/3371523\/trump-optimism-patience-tariffs-economy-we-will-win-hang-tough\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"tariffs\">tariffs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>SNL cast member James&nbsp;Austin&nbsp;Johnson gave his <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Trump impression\">Trump impression<\/a> to explain the tariffs that began the same day the episode aired. Every tariff against all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3370570\/us-customs-braces-huge-task-enforcing-trump-tariffs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"86 countries\">86 countries<\/a> will begin on Apr. 9, as the first round was the baseline tariff of 10%.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/3370571\/disney-right-move-pause-tangled-after-snow-white-joe-concha\/\">Disney making the right move pausing Tangled after Snow White bombs: Joe Concha<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/magazine-your-land\/3367917\/john-boyega-blame-rian-johnson-struggling-career-not-star-wars-fans\/\">John Boyega should blame Rian Johnson, not Star Wars fans, for his struggling career<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/3367349\/chappell-roan-parents-unhappy-call-her-daddy-podcast\/\">Chappell Roan&rsquo;s road to unhappiness<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;They mean we&rsquo;re going to make America wealthy again. MAWA! MAWA,&rdquo; Johnson said. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re doing MAWA! But before that, we&rsquo;re going to do MAGDA. MAGDA. Make America Great Depression again. You know what? It&rsquo;ll be great; it&rsquo;ll be better than great. It&rsquo;ll be a fantastic, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">unbelievable depression<\/a>, the likes of which you&rsquo;ve never seen before.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VEle3pZRqmI?si=blVVlSaXp5L6x0Z0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>    <\/p>\n<p>Johnson joked that South Africa was one of the countries &ldquo;ripping us off&rdquo; as it has a 60% tariff against U.S. goods. &ldquo;They&rsquo;ve never sent us one good thing,&rdquo; the actor said, prompting the appearance of comedian Mike Meyers impersonating South African <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/elon-musk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Elon Musk\">Elon Musk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Elon is great, but, sadly, it&rsquo;s time to never see you again, OK?&rdquo; Johnson told Meyers. &ldquo;You got to get back to Tesla, right? Because they&rsquo;re doing pretty bad.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3368959\/john-kennedy-compares-tariffs-whiskey-bets-every-foreign-trade-rep-negotiate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>JOHN KENNEDY COMPARES TARIFFS TO WHISKEY AND BETS &lsquo;EVERY FOREIGN TRADE REP&rsquo; WILL NEGOTIATE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The reference was to the series of crimes committed against Tesla cars and dealerships in recent weeks. In the U.S., vandals who perpetrated attacks on&nbsp;Tesla&nbsp;vehicles, which have included keying and lighting them ablaze with Molotov cocktails, are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/la-times-columnist-faces-blowback-after-posting-claims-about-trumpites-next-door\/\" title=\"LA Times Columnist Faces Blowback After Posting Claims About \u2018Trumpites Next Door\u2019\">facing&#038;nbsp<\/a>;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3354196\/bondi-charges-tesla-vandalism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">federal<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3359861\/dc-police-investigate-tesla-attack-hate-crime-penalty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hate crime<\/a>&nbsp;charges.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla&nbsp;is increasingly under attack ever since Musk endorsed Trump and became his senior advisor. Musk has become the face of the Department of Government Efficiency which has directed cuts to federal spending.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2083693\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2083693\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SNL mocks Trump\u2019s tariffs and bids Musk farewell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2631,"featured_media":2420415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/AP25035725129443-scaled-1024x682.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[7958,32192,36660,32870,50525],"class_list":["post-2420414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-comedy","tag-elon-musk","tag-pop-culture","tag-satire","tag-snl-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/AP25035725129443-scaled-1024x682.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2420414"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2420418,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420414\/revisions\/2420418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2420415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2420414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2420414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2420414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}