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In recent weeks, it seemed as though Donald Trump had let go of his long-standing rivalry with S.N.L., squeezing in a ding at the “Democrat spin machine” here, a defense of Kanye West there, but largely ignoring its jabs. That appeared to change Sunday morning, as Trump resumed his full-throated attacks after a particularly scathing series of sketches. “Nothing funny about tired Saturday Night Live on Fake News NBC!” he tweeted.
The president presumably caught wind of Saturday’s cold open, which featured Alec Baldwin reprising his longstanding impression to mock the president’s declaration of a national emergency on Friday. Trump and his ilk have famously bristled at the impression, and didn’t take kindly to Saturday Night Live recounting—arguably without parody—the controversial press conference.
“You all see why I gotta fake this emergency, right?” Baldwin asked during the sketch. “I have to because I want to. It’s really simple. We have a problem. Drugs are coming into this country through no wall.” Increasingly stunting his grammar, he concluded, “Wall works, wall makes safe. You don’t have to be smart to understand that—in fact it’s even easier to understand if you’re not that smart.”
The impression also took aim at Trump’s own sing-song recital of the challenges his declaration will face in court.
I’ll immediately be sued and the ruling will not go in my favor and then it will end up in the Supreme Court and then I’ll call my buddy Kavanaugh and I’ll say ‘it’s time to repay the Donny,’ and he’ll say, ‘new phone, who dis?’ And by then the Mueller report will be released, crumbling my house of cards and I can plead insanity and do a few months in the puzzle factory and my personal hell of playing president will finally be over.
In addition to the real Trump threatening “retribution” for NBC’s “Republican hit jobs,” the president reiterated his talking point that “THE RIGGED AND CORRUPT MEDIA IS THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!” Trump had kept largely silent on the topic of S.N.L. in recent months, only piping up when supporter Kanye West controversially donned a “Make America Great Again” hat in a September outro:
He also raged against the network in December, tweeting, “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?”
Elsewhere, Saturday’s show featured a cameo by Alex Moffat as Chuck Schumer, opposite Kate McKinnon’s Nancy Pelosi, which was much more favorably received by the Congressman:
This story was originally published by Vanity Fair
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