“Saturday Night Live” cast member Leslie Jones weighed in on Donald Trump’s Sunday Twitter, calling the president “an idiot” after he threatened a federal investigation against the comedy show for mocking him.
“This guy is an idiot!! It was a rerun you moron!! #lordhelpusplease,” Jones wrote in an Instagram post, referring to the episode’s original airdate of Dec. 15, 2018.
“If Beale Street Could Talk” actor Bryan Tyree Henry and “In Living Color” actor David Alan Grier both commented on the post with crying-while-laughing emojis.
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Trump took aim at “SNL” Sunday, calling NBC’s late-night show “one sided [mic] media coverage” for poking fun at him.
It’s truly incredible that shows like Saturday Night Live, not funny/no talent, can spend all of their time knocking the same person (me), over & over, without so much of a mention of “the other side.” Like an advertisement without consequences. Same with Late Night Shows……
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 17, 2019
….Should Federal Election Commission and/or FCC look into this? There must be Collusion with the Democrats and, of course, Russia! Such one sided media coverage, most of it Fake News. Hard to believe I won and am winning. Approval Rating 52%, 93% with Republicans. Sorry! #MAGA
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 17, 2019
The episode that set-off the POTUS’ Twitter rant was Saturday night’s rerun of the 2018 Christmas episode in which the cold open — titled “It’s a Wonderful Trump” — shows Alec Baldwin as Trump getting his wish that he had never become president, while people like the first lady and Kellyanne Conway live happier lives as a result.
Trump, himself a previous ‘SNL’ host in 2004 and 2015, was similarly incensed the first time he saw the skit in December, tweeting the next day, “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?”