Live” cast member James Austin Johnson returned as Donald Trump during the latest episode’s cold open to give his version of the president’s recent “Liberation Day” tariff announcement.

Trump also slammed China, which retaliated against his sweeping tariff policy Friday with a new 34% tariff on U.S. goods.

The Trump administration’s latest trade offensive is underway as Customs and Border Protection (CBP) begins enforcing “Liberation Day" tariffs, pulling in more than $200 million a day.

President Donald Trump on Saturday told followers on his Truth Social platform to “hang tough” in a post reaffirming his administration’s stance on its sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs which shook markets this week.

The US dollar has been falling as President Donald Trump rolls out his tariffs, and it plunged after he unveiled much steeper-than-expected duties on "Liberation Day." That goes against what markets had anticipated before he launched his trade war.

After months of delays, President Donald Trump's contentious tariff barrage is now in effect. It imposes a wide variety of new import duties that are the steepest seen in nearly a century and that affect all of the country's trade partners.

The White House had finalized a TikTok divestment deal earlier this week before President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff rollout flipped the Chinese government’s position on the issue, the Washington Examiner has learned.

CGTN isn’t the only state media outlet to use AI to slam Trump’s trade policy. New China TV, the English-language social-media-focused brand of China’s official state news service Xinhua, also published on April 3 a three-minute, 18-second sci-fi short called “T.A.R.I.F.F.”