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Trump Just Suggested ‘Saturday Night Live’ Should Be Illegal, ‘Should Be Tested in Courts, Can’t Be Legal?
During his Sunday morning Twitter rant, Donald Trump lashed out at Saturday Night Live and NBC as “Democrat spin machines” and suggested they face legal trouble for it.
“A REAL scandal is the one sided coverage, hour by hour, of networks like NBC & Democrat spin machines like Saturday Night Live,” said Trump around 9 a.m. SNL’s cold open the night before featured a take on “It’s a Wonderful Life” in which an angel showed Alec Baldwin‘s Trump what the world would be like if he had never become president. The show hit him in several other sketches, including one bit in “Weekend Update” in which Colin Jost offered up “Impeachment Bingo.”
“It is all nothing less than unfair news coverage and Dem commercials,” said Trump, before suggesting it should face a court challenge.
A REAL scandal is the one sided coverage, hour by hour, of networks like NBC & Democrat spin machines like Saturday Night Live. It is all nothing less than unfair news coverage and Dem commercials. Should be tested in courts, can’t be legal? Only defame & belittle! Collusion?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 16, 2018
Trump posted the tweet after NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” pondered a world in which the president was not elected in its latest cold open.
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The president also knocked the sketch comedy show after its season premiere earlier this year, saying it was “just a political ad for the Dems.”
Trump often labels negative coverage “fake news” and calls the media the “enemy of the people.”
In October, he blamed what he deemed unfair media coverage for causing “great anger” in the country.
The president said in a pair of tweets following a violent week of mail bombs and a shooting that killed 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue that the “Fake News Media” is “the true Enemy of the People.”
“There is great anger in our Country caused in part by inaccurate, and even fraudulent, reporting of the news. The Fake News Media, the true Enemy of the People, must stop the open & obvious hostility & report the news accurately & fairly,” Trump wrote.
“That will do much to put out the flame of Anger and Outrage and we will then be able to bring all sides together in Peace and Harmony,” he added.
Trump in September repeated his suggestion that NBC’s “license” should be challenged. In a tweet, he attacked the network’s “journalistic standards” following reports that it had passed on a damning exposé about Harvey Weinstein.
“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,” the president wrote.
“I have long criticized NBC and their journalistic standards-worse than even CNN. Look at their license?” he added.
Twitter had some thoughts:
You…you want to take NBC to court because of unfair coverage on Saturday Night Live, which isn't a news program?
You are a very, very dumb man.
— Daddy Files (@DaddyFiles) December 16, 2018
James @Comey on Pres. Trump & humor: “I don’t recall seeing him laugh, ever. I suspect his apparent inability to do so is rooted in deep insecurity, his inability to be vulnerable or to risk himself by appreciating the humor of others, which, on reflection, is really very sad…”
— Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) December 16, 2018
"only defame and belittle"
Crooked Hillary. Little Rocket Man. Low Energy Jeb. Lyin' Ted. Pocahontas. Failing New York Times. Lovely Lisa Page. 17 Angry Democrats. Crazy Maxine. Little Marco. Crazy Joe. Sleepy Joe. The Dick. Moonbeam Jerry Brown. Nasty Woman…
1/ https://t.co/gWvNsMdmqH— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) December 16, 2018
The president on Twitter is actually talking about suing Saturday Night Live. https://t.co/HNK4qcz73T
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) December 16, 2018
'Making fun of me should be illegal' is where we are in 2018. https://t.co/b4ccD8DTke
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) December 16, 2018
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