President-elect Donald Trump tweeted early Sunday morning about how angry he is about Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin’s portrayal of him on “Saturday Night Live.”
Following this weekend’s show, the president-elect didn’t waste any time in blasting it as “unwatchable,” “totally biased” and “not funny” ― while saying Baldwin’s impersonation “just can’t get any worse.”
This skit that seemed to anger Trump centered around Baldwin as Trump retweeting random people, including a high school student, during what should have been an important security briefing.
“There is a reason actually that Donald tweets so much,” said “SNL” cast member Kate McKinnon as Trump’s campaign manager and top aide Kellyanne Conway. “He does it to distract the media from his business conflicts and all the very scary people in his cabinet.”
Baldwin as Trump replied: “Actually, that’s not why I do it. I do it because my brain is bad.” Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon even made an appearance, as the Grim Reaper.
In November, the president-elect said the the show “totally one-sided” and “biased.” The previous month, while he was still on the campaign trail, he said it was “boring and unfunny” and called for it to be scrapped.
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