Mocked for his tweets, Trump fires back — on Twitter
President-elect again goes after ‘Saturday Night Live’ over impersonation of him, microblogging that it is ‘sad’ and ‘unwatchable’
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump sent a dismissive tweet in response to a comedy sketch that mocked his penchant for sending tweets.
Trump again lambasted the show “Saturday Night Live,” on which he is played by actor Alec Baldwin.
But whereas on other occasions Trump has tweeted his criticism the next morning, this time he fired away before the show ended.
“Just tried watching Saturday Night Live — unwatchable! Totally biased, not funny and the Baldwin impersonation just can’t get any worse. Sad,” Trump wrote.
Just tried watching Saturday Night Live – unwatchable! Totally biased, not funny and the Baldwin impersonation just can't get any worse. Sad
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 4, 2016
In the latest sketch, Trump is gently chided by aides for sending re-tweets, one from a high school student, during a national security briefing.
Actress Kate McKinnon’s Kellyanne Conway, a Trump strategist, said the president-elect tweets a lot “to distract the media from his business conflicts and all the very scary people in his cabinet.”
But Trump as played by Baldwin said, “actually that’s not why I do it. I do it because my brain is bad.”
"Wait a minute… is that the picture of me that I hate?" #SNL pic.twitter.com/0H3KUZlbUa
— Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) December 4, 2016
The sketch ended with Trump calling for his chief strategist Steve Bannon who then enters in the guise of the Grim Reaper. Bannon used to run Breitbart News, which has been criticized as a platform for white supremacists and anti-Semitism.
Can’t start the meeting without Chief Strategist, Steve Bannon. #SNL pic.twitter.com/R5NVUyBu1C
— Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) December 4, 2016
After Trump’s tweet, Baldwin himself tweeted: “Release your tax returns and I’ll stop. Ha.”
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