Trump calls SNL spoof ‘hit job,’ calls for end of show
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In this Oct. 15, 2016 photo provided by NBC, Alec Baldwin, left, as Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, and Kate McKinnon, as Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, perform during the during the “Debate Cold Open” sketch. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump tweeted early Sunday morning, Oct. 16 that the show’s skit depicting him this week was a “hit job.” Trump went on to write that it’s “time to retire” the show, calling it “boring and unfunny” and adding that Alec Baldwin’s portrayal of him “stinks.”
LOS ANGELES >> Donald Trump has some choice words for “Saturday Night Live.”
The Republican presidential candidate tweeted early Sunday morning that the show’s skit depicting him this week was a “hit job.” Trump went on to write that it’s “time to retire” the show, calling it “boring and unfunny” and adding that Alec Baldwin’s portrayal of him “stinks.”
Watched Saturday Night Live hit job on me.Time to retire the boring and unfunny show. Alec Baldwin portrayal stinks. Media rigging election!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 16, 2016
Saturday’s show featured a send-up of the second presidential debate last held last Sunday at Washington University in St. Louis.
Baldwin, who retweeted Trump’s critique, has been playing him on “Saturday Night Live” since its 42nd season kicked off a few weeks ago, with Kate McKinnon depicting Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton.
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Trump himself hosted an episode of “Saturday Night Live” last November.
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So, just when you think Trump landed in the Dead Sea, the lowest part on earth, he digs even further. Late last night he started a string of tweets, basically asking to take Alec Baldwin and his hilarious satire of him on SNL, to be removed with SNL off TV.
So, the system is rigged huh?? Never has a single person taken so much from the system without giving a reciprocal amount back.
Really?? Now, is your skin is so uber thin, that even sardonic skits on TV can be threatened. The rather clear and bitter irony is never has there been a single individual so ingratiated and benefiting from the system and society. Consider the following:
Born with a silver spoon and large inheritance in his mouth;
Father purchased his way into Penn (not the Wharton School, as he never received a degree from Wharton), as shortly after his transfer admission, there was a large donation by his father to the school;
Borrows constantly from his father and siblings, even after receiving a a large inheritance;
Multiple dubious draft deferments;
Almost every one of his domestic housing projects included very large federal subsidizes;
Extensive and almost chronic usage of federal bankruptcy laws and protection;
Monopolizing the court system to bully smaller individuals and entities;
Utilizing and taking advantage of non-profit organizations law to pay private lawsuits and legal actions;
Manipulating the tax code to basically not pay federal taxes for almost two decades; and
Over 30 years of media coverage to promote his own business interest and personally ingratiate himself and family.
It’s more than funny now, when he says the media is against him, as they were a powerful ally for over 30 years. Now, with the plethora of lurid and sordid instances being uncovered, which appear to be a part of his pathology, the media is bad???? Please, you’re a piece of tu$d and everyone now knows it……
It’s funny how he loved SNL when he was the host & getting all this publicity…and how he loved all of the publicity (good & bad) during the primaries, but he cries about all of the negative coverage now that it’s hurting him…
Trump realizes his run for president will have long lasting negative effects with his brand, busineses, …. That is why he is so desperate to make his upcoming loss to Clinton the result of an unfair rigged election. After the election he wll forever be deemed by all non fanatical Trump supporters as a tax evading, dirty old crotch grabbing perv, bankruptcy filing, racist, con man LOSER. What business in the US will pay for another Trump brand hotel or casino in their city? Forget reality TV on any major network because their target audience is educated women with disposable income and they will refuse to watch any show that involves Trump. Trump went ‘all in’ thinking he could bully his way into the White house and now he has basically destroyed his and his childrens’s name. Of course he will never starve and continue to sit on gold toilet but he will never attain the highest positions of power and wealth. Other than regular visits on Fox News, he and Guilani will be pariahs like Andy Wiener or Mel Gibson.
Yup, if we didn’t already have an unobstructed and candid view of the “real him”. It’s at once grosteseque, henious, and exercise of conceit and self-immolation. The country did not have to go through this entirely unhinged man.
Now, his name and gaudy empire are at stake, and true to the narrative of a Greek tragedy, he will also burn that down……only so fitting.
So What Did Dolly Parton Say About Hillary Clinton?
In a recent interview Dolly Parton put her thoughts about Hillary as straight forward as possible. She called Hillary, “nuts.” Parton then went on to call Hillary’s entire campaign, “just crazy.”
She also argued that Americans deserve to see the real Hillary. Not the façade she’s created to create influence with the population. Dolly is downright sick and tired of seeing the people lied to and she put the spotlight straight onto Hillary for it.
Yeah, America should really take their political cues from Dolly Parton.
If we’re gonna let entertainers tell us who to vote for (or against), I’m much more interested in Snoop Dogg’s opinion.
Dolly who, hey if I want to hear a lick about working 9 to 5 from the 80s, I might pause for a half-second. Entirely ridiculous and inane that you would even mention that……
@sarge, you left out that Parton said *both* candidates are nuts. “I don’t know where they’re going to land but I think they’re both nuts” she said, joking that “it’s like watching the OJ Simpson trial. You just believe whoever’s up next. Whoever testified last is who you believe.” And “Let’s talk about what we really need — taking care of us. I think people just want to have a feeling of security. It’s just like political terrorism right now, they got us all scared to death about everything,” Parton said. This was in CNN’s article about her appearance on CNN. She made it clear she wasn’t pleased w/either candidate and didn’t know who she would vote for.
I can’t wait for Trump to disappear after the elections, but you all know that isn’t happening. His whole purpose for running for Prez probably was to deal with all the lawsuits and legal problems that was pending against him, and also to start up some kind of Trump TV network catering to the ultra right wing white supremacists that have embraced him as their modern day messiah and the second coming of Hitler.
“Born with a silver spoon and large inheritance in his mouth”
Judging from his behavior at the last debate, he’s apparently removed it from his mouth and stuck it up his nose.
Get a clue, Donald! You say controversial, weird things, SNL (and every other comedy and news show) will bring them up. This is what happens when you surround yourself for years with people who kiss your behind and tell you what a genius you are. This is reality. Deal with it!
Exactly!
Alec Baldwin is a bit strange himself but his portrayal on SNL was just brilliant.
Not as good as the ” Scswetty Balls” skit!
Love that one!
So trump finds this insulting? How thin skinned can he be. Can you imagine what he would do if someone like rodrigo duterte, with his penchant for crude language, said something trump didn’t like? It would be a total disaster.
Hey Donald, I like watching you more than SNL cuz I get to laugh my pants off.
Trump makes himself so spoofable.
I totally trust this guy to uphold the First Amendment as president… Except for the parts about free speech and freedom of the press.
Why is HiLIARy wearing Monica’s blue dress? At least she had it laundered.
moron
I’ve had a wonderful laughable and enjoyable time reading the comments on how the majority sees Donald Dump is looked at!!! Thank you everyone for sharing your thoughts on this looser of a candidate! I am praying he is belittled at the end … and his brand is demolished forever and for good!!!
Drumpf’s only shred of what someone might theoretically call humor is “bully humor” that belittles and mocks other people. It’s no surprise he can’t stand being the target of anyone else’s humor. Recall how he reacted with barely-controlled rage when President Obama aimed a few barbs at him during the 2011 White House Correspondents’ dinner?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/i-sat-next-to-donald-trump-at-the-infamous-2011-white-house-correspondents-dinner/2016/04/27/5cf46b74-0bea-11e6-8ab8-9ad050f76d7d_story.html
It’s no wonder, then, that he can’t stand SNL — just like he can’t stand anyone or anything he can’t control or buy off.
Just imagine what this megalomaniac would do from behind the Oval Office desk. There’d be prison camps for journalists, just like North Korea.
Donald Trump has virtually stopped trying to win this election by any conventional metric and is instead stacking logs of grievance on the funeral pyre with the great anticipation of setting it ablaze if current polls turn out to be predictive.
There is something calamitous in the air that surrounds the campaign, a hostile fatalism that bespeaks a man convinced that the end is near and aiming his anger at all within reach.
As his path to victory grows narrower, his desperation grows more pronounced.
Last week a steady stream of women stepped forward to accuse Trump of some form of sexual assault, abuse or inappropriate behavior. Trump’s response has been marked by a stunning lack of grace and dignity, let alone contrition or empathy, a response much like the man himself.
Instead, he is doubling down on sexism.
On Thursday, Trump said of the People magazine reporter who accused him of forcibly kissing her: “Look at her. Look at her words. You tell me what you think. I don’t think so.”
He said on Friday of the woman accusing him of groping her on an airplane: “Believe me, she would not be my first choice, that I can tell you.”
He also said of Clinton, “When she walked in front of me, believe me, I wasn’t impressed.”
His response to these charges has been surprisingly — and perhaps, revealingly — callow. He has mocked, whined, chided, bemoaned and belittled. It’s as if the man is on a mission to demonstrate to voters the staggering magnitude of his social vulgarity and emotional ineptitude. He has dispensed with all semblances of wanting to appear presidential and embraced what seems to be most natural to him: acting like a pig.
Furthermore, everything is rigged against him, from the media to the election itself. He’s threatening to sue The New York Times. He says he and Clinton should take a drug test before the next debate.
These are the ravings of a lunatic.
Trump is back to carelessly shooting off his mouth and recklessly shooting himself in the foot.
It is sad, really, but for him I have no sympathy. He has spent this entire election attacking anyone and everyone whom he felt it would be politically advantageous to attack. Trump, now that you’re under attack, you want to cry woe-is-me and have people commiserate. Slim chance, big guy.
The coarseness of your character has been put on full display, and now the electorate has come to cash the check you wrote.
Trump now looks like a madman from Mad Men, a throwback to when his particular privileges had more perks and were considered less repugnant. He looks pathetic.
He is a ball of contradictions that together form a bully, a man who has built a menacing wall around the hollow of his self. He is brash to mask his fragility. NYT
Indeed….
What’s funnier than any SNL skit are the people who try to defend Trump. Their attempts to spin, deflect, downplay every gaff is laughable. This is real life!
Very well placed. The real fall-out for these misguided individuals will be after the election. All credibility lost, and the eternal rationalization that will be the rest of their lives, and more importantly, laughing stocks in the political arena.
Waaaa, waaaa, waaaa,John Fogarty’s Fortunate Son has hurt feelings. So what, Trump has insulted, denigrated, and humiliated !!! How’s YOUR pie taste, Mr Trump ??
You reap what you sow, and I’d be fearful of your “crop” being harvested !!!
As to the ridiculous notion that the electoral process is rigged, here are germane excerpts from the uber conservative Nationa Review:
Those who paid attention to the Republican primaries will recall this tactic. Back then, the conspiring parties were the Republican National Committee and the congressional “Establishment” and various conservative media outlets, whom Trump accused of trying to “steal” the party’s nomination from him. This time, Trump is suggesting that the entire electoral mechanism by which Americans choose their chief executive has become illegitimate. As a factual matter, this is, of course, bunk.
The electoral process, from bottom to top, is managed by citizens and governed by a dense body of election law. Vote-counting is heavily scrutinized by party officials and independent monitors, and irregularities are subject to legal challenge. The voting equipment used is tested prior to Election Day and carefully monitored before, during, and after. None of this is to say that voter fraud does not exist, or that errors don’t occasionally affect vote totals. But to “rig” an election at the national scale would require logistical know-how seen only in Hollywood capers.
To think that the same Clinton campaign that had trouble putting away Bernie Sanders has now arranged to steal an election on a continental scale defies logic — to put it mildly. As for the media, there is no doubt that the press hates Donald Trump with a passion, and it shows. Unfortunately, media bias is a persistent feature of our system. Shrewd Republican campaigns don’t just complain about it, but work to make themselves less vulnerable to it. As the Trump campaign has spiraled downward in the polls, he has constantly taken the bait from the Clinton campaign and ensured, through his tweets and riffs at rallies, that damaging controversies get more coverage rather than less (although even the best-run campaign would be hard-pressed to cope with multiple allegations of unwanted advances and groping by the candidate).
Inevitably, propaganda outlets such as Infowars and Breitbart News push Trump’s message and prominent backers and surrogates fall in line. Jeff Sessions — the four-term senator from Alabama and member of the Judiciary Committee — told a crowd in Portsmouth, N.H., “They are attempting to rig this election.”It is no accident that the election looked much less “rigged” in mid September, when Trump had closed in on Hillary by embracing a modicum of discipline. He has now cast that aside in favor of unleashing the full Trump id, including his conspiracy theory about the election. ‘They are attempting to rig this election,’ says Jeff Sessions. This is reckless in the extreme.
This is reckless in the extreme. Hillary Clinton is spectacularly unfit for the office of president of the United States; had she a different last name, she would almost certainly be facing felony charges for endangering state secrets. But she is the official nominee of the Democratic party, and if she becomes president, it will be because she was chosen by the American electorate in accordance with our laws. At that point, it will be the most urgent priority of conservatives to resist her agenda, and to begin the task of reconstituting a winning conservative coalition. Neither of those aims will be served by denying reality.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/441132/donald-trump-rigged-election-charges-false
Can’t wait for Wednesday Nov 9, 2016!…..the day after elections…….vote wisely my friend.
boycott Trump Hotel in Waikiki?