Imitation might be the highest form of flattery, but Donald Trump apparently isn’t feeling it.
The president-elect slammed “Saturday Night Live” once again, tweeting Sunday morning that it’s “nothing funny at all.”
I watched parts of @nbcsnl Saturday Night Live last night. It is a totally one-sided, biased show – nothing funny at all. Equal time for us?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 20, 2016
In the sketch-comedy show’s cold open, Alec Baldwin portrayed the Republican as a clueless, flip-flopping leader, who had to Google ISIS and reconsidered some seemingly steadfast campaign promises, such as building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. The show also touched on Trump’s association with the Ku Klux Klan. In the opening minutes, Trump asks campaign manager Kellyanne Conway (played by Kate McKinnon, who has also depicted Trump’s election rival Hillary Clinton) what his constitutents think of his recent cabinet appointments. “They were great for our nation and the future of our children,” McKinnon says of a “very nice tweet.”
“Tremendous,” the president-elect says, asking who sent the tweet.
“David Duke,” McKinnon replies, referencing the one-time Imperial Wizard of the KKK.
Duke in recent days has applauded Trump’s cabinet selections, which have includedSteve Bannon, who was the executive chairman of ultra-conservative Breitbart News, to White House chief strategist, andAlabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, a noted critic of immigration legislation, who is slated to be Trump’s attorney general. Last night’s episode of SNL also featured Jason Sudeikis, a regular and writer on the show and voice actor on Fox’s new series “Son of Zorn,” who played Mitt Romney and castmember Beck Bennett as Mike Pence. Amid Trump pleading with Siri on how to kill ISIS and muttering about how to pay for the wall, Pence enters the president-elect’s office to talk about some other campaign promises: jailing Clinton, deporting immigrants, overturning Obamacare. But Trump is more foucsed on how Pence was treated during a production of “Hamilton” recently. “I love you, Mike,” Baldwin said. “You’re the reason I’m never going to get impeached.”
After the second presidential debate in October, SNL poked fun at the candidate’s body language and criticising his treatment of women. After the show aired on Oct. 16, the then-candidate tweeted, “Watched ‘Saturday Night Live’ hit job on me. Time to retire the boring and unfunny show. Alec Baldwin portrayal stinks. Media rigging election!”
