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| U.S. President-elect Donald Trump looks towards the media as he arrives at a costume party at the home of hedge fund billionaire and campaign donor Robert Mercer in Head of the Harbor, New York, U.S., December 3, 2016. REUTERS photo |
President-elect Donald Trump sent a dismissive tweet in response to a comedy sketch that mocked his penchant for sending tweets.
Trump again lambasted the show โSaturday Night Live,โ on which he is played by actor Alec Baldwin.
But whereas on other occasions Trump has tweeted his criticism the next morning, this time he fired away before the show ended.
โJust tried watching Saturday Night Live – unwatchable! Totally biased, not funny and the Baldwin impersonation just canโt get any worse. Sad,โ Trump wrote.
In the latest sketch, Trump is gently chided by aides for sending retweets, one from a high school student, during a national security briefing.
Actress Kate McKinnonโs Kellyanne Conway, a Trump strategist, said the president-elect tweets a lot to โto distract the media from his business conflicts and all the very scary people in his cabinet.โ
But Trump as played by Baldwin said, โactually thatโs not why I do it. I do it because my brain is bad.โ
The sketch ended with Trump calling for his chief strategist Steve Bannon who then enters in the guise of the Grim Reaper.
Bannon used to run Breitbart News, which has been criticized as a platform for white supremacists and anti-Semitism.
After Trumpโs tweet, Baldwin himself tweeted: โRelease your tax returns and Iโll stop. Ha.โ
