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Donald Trumpwas none too happy withAlec Baldwin‘s impersonation of him on the weekend’s episode ofSaturday Night Live,tweeting out harsh words about the NBC comedy show that Baldwin later worried might impact the safety of his family.
The president, 72, fired up his Twitter account on Sunday morning to slamSNLforits cold opening skit, which had recreated (sometimes word for word) the speech Trump had given on Friday, in whichhe declared a “national emergency” at the southern border.
“Nothing funny about tiredSaturday Night Liveon Fake News NBC!” Trump tweeted. “Question is, how do the Networks get away with these total Republican hit jobs without retribution? Likewise for many other shows?”
“Very unfair and should be looked into,” he added. “This is the real Collusion!”
Trump, who spent years working with NBC as the host ofThe ApprenticeandTheCelebrity Apprentice,has been critical ofSNLin the past — making this latest clap back par for the course. But his words appeared to hit a different chord with Baldwin this time around.
Reps for Baldwin andSNLhad no comment. The White House did not immediately return PEOPLE’s request for comment.
Other presidents, from Richard Nixon to Bill Clinton, have also used their time in the White House to bite back at the media, the AP reported.
But as theNew York Times‘ White House correspondent Peter Baker wrote on Sunday, “No other president in decades publicly threatened ‘retribution’ against a television network because it satirized him.”
“I’ve interviewed 7 presidents and covered 4 full time over last couple decades,” he tweeted. “All complained about the press and at times lashed out. Butnone of them, Republican or Democrat, engaged in the kind of ‘enemy of the people’ rhetoric Trump routinely does.”
“Just because other presidents have at times been wrong in their treatment of the pressdoesn’t mean this is therefore normal and acceptable,” Barker added.
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Meanwhile, though Trump didn’t appreciateSNL‘s impersonation of him on Saturday, New York Sen. Chuck Schumer appeared to have a good sense of humor about how the show portrayed him.
“Good impersonation,SNL,” Schumer tweeted, adding a photo of Moffatt holding up a smartphone. “But got one thing wrong: I use a flip phone!”
source: people.com
