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Trump as Culture Critic in Chief: SNL Is “One-Sided Biased Show”

Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump.

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In case you were wondering, Donald Trump still doesn’t think Saturday Night Live is funny. On Sunday morning, the president-elect took time out of planning his transition into the White House (and from criticizing Hamilton) to weigh in on this weekend’s SNL that featured yet another sketch in which Alec Baldwin played him. The verdict? He may have won the election, but a sketch comedy show can still get under his skin. SNL is decidedly not funny, ruled the soon-to-be leader of the free world. “It is a totally one-sided, biased show—nothing funny at all. Equal time for us?”

What was it that rubbed the president-elect the wrong way? Perhaps it was the cold open of the show in which Baldwin played a clueless Trump who had to Google ISIS and quickly backed away from his main campaign promises, including getting rid of Obamacare and building the wall. Baldwin’s Trump seemed to believe that picking Mike Pence as his vice president was one of the smartest moves he made: “You’re the reason I’m not going to get impeached.”

This was, of course, not the first time Trump criticized SNL. In October, Trump had already taken a turn as a TV critic, calling SNL a “boring and unfunny show,” adding that Baldwin’s “portrayal stinks.”