It sounds like President-elect Donald Trump has been hate-watching Saturday Night Live.
In an interview with Matt Lauer on Wednesday’s Today show, Trump went off on SNL‘s multiple skits depicting him, even attacking actor Alec Baldwin, who’s famously been portraying the golden-haired businessman.
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Trump called the comedy show “terrible,” and Baldwin’s impersonations “mean-spirited” and “biased.”
“Well, I hosted SNL when it was a good show, but it’s not a good show anymore,” he said, referring to his hosting duties in 2015. “Nothing to do with me — there’s nothing funny about it. The skits are terrible. I mean, I like Alec, but his imitation of me is really mean-spirited and not very good. I don’t think it’s good. I do like him, and I like him as an actor, but I don’t think his imitation of me gets me at all. And it’s meant to be very mean-spirited, which is very biased. I don’t like it. So I can tweet that out.”
SNL mocked Trump’s tendency to tweet impulsively last Saturday night, and the show hit the mark when he proceeded to tweet angrily at the show.
Lauer asked Trump if he “should stop” watching SNL, and Trump insinuated that it wouldn’t exist for much longer.
“Frankly, the way the show is going now — and you look at the kind of work they’re doing — who knows how long that show is going to be on? It’s a terrible show,” he retorted.
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He then continued to defend his use of Twitter, claiming it’s the best way for him to get information out quickly. He also took a swing at “dishonest” journalists in the process.
“Frankly, it’s a modern day form of communication,” he said. “Between Facebook and Twitter, I have, I guess, more than 40 million people. That’s a modern day form of communication. I get it out much faster than a press release. I get it out much more honestly than dealing with dishonest reporters because so many reporters are dishonest.”
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Trump was named Time magazine’s Person of the Year on Wednesday morning.
Watch a clip of the interview in the video at the top of the article.
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