Today Show interview with Trump proves we elected the single most fragile ego in American history

[liberal N proud]

Today Show interview with Trump proves we elected the single most fragile ego in American history

Donald Trump phoned in for an interview on The Today Show to talk about being named as Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year” and Matt Lauer pivoted to Saturday Night Live, asking the notoriously thin-skinned president-elect (gag) why he keeps watching. Wouldn’t it be more presidential to simply not watch the show and get on with the business of the country? LOL. This is Trump we are talking about here. He can’t stop, won’t stop because he has the most fragile ego outside of North Korea’s Imperial Palace. The transcript and video are below, as well as the SNL skit that set off his tweet tantrum last weekend. Enjoy!

LAUER: On that subject of a lighter note but on a lighter note, can we agree, President-elect Trump, that at this stage it would be better for you to stop watching SNL as opposed to watching it and then complaining about it?

TRUMP: Well, I hosted SNL when it was a good show, but it’s not a good show anymore. First of all, nothing to do with me, there’s nothing funny about it, the skits are terrible.

LAUER: So why do you keep watching?

TRUMP: I like Alec, but his imitation of me is really mean-spirited and not very good. I don’t think it’s good. And I do like him and I like him as an actor, but I don’t think that his imitation of me gets me at all and it’s meant to be mean-spirited, which is very biased. And I don’t like it.

LAUER: But you can’t bring yourself to stop watching it?

TRUMP: Frankly, the way the show is going now, and you look at the kind of work they’re doing, who knows how long that show is going to be on? It’s a terrible show.



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[annabanana]

1. It was a very very simple question.. "Why watch?"

But it was too hard for him. He is psychologically incapable of the slightest whiff of genuine self reflection. He must be truly terrified of what he might find.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. So Comcast-NBC-MSNBC are

embarking on the Trump Victory Slap.

[elleng]

3. OMFG!

Where's the post/thread that asked something like: 'Something's GOT to give! Something's VERY wrong?!'

[Tommy_Carcetti]

4. If that's the case, how did Bill Clinton ever survive the late 90s?

With all the Monica jokes on late night comedy.

Oh that's right.

He really didn't care and just went about his business running the country.

[MFM008]

5. Hopefully

It galls him (it does) and piles the stress on those fragile arteries. ..........

[C_U_L8R]

6. This

President Donald J Dumbass

[liberal N proud]

8. Yes!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. "Why watch?" indeed. He can't help watching because it's about him.

But if you're going to be in politics (sometimes described as show business for ugly people), you have to have a hide like a rhinoceros. Unkind, maybe downright libelous things will be said about you. Unflattering cartoons will be drawn of you. Even the most upstanding, well-liked politicians get mud thrown at them; that's just what happens in politics. Politicians have to be able to shrug all that shit off and move on - either ignore it completely or make a joke of it, like Obama often does. Trump can't help watching/reading anything that involves him, but at the same time he freaks out if it's negative and he feels compelled to whine that it's "unfair" and that the show or publication is terrible and failing.

But just wait, Donald. You ain't seen nothin' yet.

[bighartredux]

9. The fodder for comedians

and political cartoonist over the coming months will be EPIC.

It will be very interesting to see how the orange one handles being the subject of scorn and ridicule on a daily basis.