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President Trump Calls for Investigation After SNL Makes a Mockery of His National Emergency

President Donald Trump once again took to his Twitter account today, this time calling out Saturday Night live for a sketch featuring actor Alec Baldwin — who has performed as the President on SNL during the course of Trump’s presidency — where Baldwin called Trump’s National Emergency a “fake” and skewered many of the President’s justifications for a southern border wall.
“We have a tremendous amount of drugs flowing into the country from the southern border—or the brown line as many people have asked me not to call it,” said Baldwin as Trump. “That’s why we need wall. Because wall works. Wall makes safe.”
Actor and last evening’s host Don Cheadle also closed the show wearing a hockey-style jersey with “CCCP” — the acronym of the former Soviet Union — on the front, and “Trump” on the back in faux Cyrillic text.
Trump claimed that NBC and other networks should be “looked into” via Twitter, and that SNL and other networks making “Republican hit jobs” are “the real Collusion.”
Nothing funny about tired Saturday Night Live on Fake News NBC! Question is, how do the Networks get away with these total Republican hit jobs without retribution? Likewise for many other shows? Very unfair and should be looked into. This is the real Collusion!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 17, 2019
He followed it up with an all-caps statement, once again falling back on his mantra of the media being an “enemy of the people.”
THE RIGGED AND CORRUPT MEDIA IS THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 17, 2019
Last week, a reporter was assaulted at a Trump political rally, leading the White House, via Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, to call on supporters to behave in a, “in a peaceful and respectful manner,” and declaring that President Trump, “condemns all acts of violence against any individual or group of people — including members of the press.”
Saturday Night Live is, of course, a weekly sketch comedy show, not a news source. Nevertheless, SNL often pokes fun at those in power, and has mocked the President of the United States since Chevy Chase impersonated President Ford in 1976.
Trump has long railed against the media and in particular NBC, suggesting last September that NBC’s “license” should be challenged. NBC is the home of Saturday Night Live.
NBC FAKE NEWS, which is under intense scrutiny over their killing the Harvey Weinstein story, is now fumbling around making excuses for their probably highly unethical conduct. I have long criticized NBC and their journalistic standards-worse than even CNN. Look at their license?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 4, 2018
Broadcast licenses are only granted to individual stations, however, and not to networks such as NBC.
Watch the Saturday Night Life skit below:
Image via screen capture from video source.
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