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.”
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.”
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.
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.