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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sun Sep 30, 2018, 01:23 PM Sep 2018

Trump knocks 'Saturday Night Live' after season premiere: 'It is just a political ad for the Dems'

Source: The Hill



BY BRETT SAMUELS - 09/30/18 01:13 PM EDT

President Trump on Sunday bashed "Saturday Night Live" after its season premiere, claiming that the show "is just a political ad for the Dems."

The president in a tweet claimed he does not watch the show, despite previously hosting it and regularly being a focal point of its sketches.




"Saturday Night Live" opened its 44th season with actor Adam Driver hosting and West, a vocal Trump supporter, serving as the musical guest.

The opening of the show skewered Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's fiery testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, mocking how frequently he referenced his affinity for beer and his use of a calendar from 1982 as proof that he did not attend a party where Christine Blasey Ford alleged he sexually assaulted her that year.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/409147-trump-knocks-snl-after-season-premiere-it-is-just-a-political-ad-for
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Trump knocks 'Saturday Night Live' after season premiere: 'It is just a political ad for the Dems' (Original Post) DonViejo Sep 2018 OP
How did snl make anything seem worse than the actual performance? unblock Sep 2018 #1
They could have played the skit and hearing on a split screen. LastLiberal in PalmSprings Sep 2018 #39
This tweet is probably worth 100,000 more views for the video. nycbos Sep 2018 #2
What ever annoys you Apricot Hellbeast is therefore a good thing. irisblue Sep 2018 #3
"Apricot Hellbeast" NastyRiffraff Sep 2018 #9
Stollen from a Scot in a 2009 article about the windmills. irisblue Sep 2018 #19
Historians will look back on that name and instantly recall apkhgp Sep 2018 #43
From your keyboard to infinity. irisblue Sep 2018 #44
My keyboard and infinity are intimately acquainted apkhgp Oct 2018 #48
🤣🤣🤣🤣 irisblue Oct 2018 #49
Guess that trump has seen a number of SNL clips. empedocles Sep 2018 #4
SNL Aims DownriverDem Sep 2018 #35
Hey Donny, you get hundreds of thousands of hours of news coverage a week. Initech Sep 2018 #5
Exactly what I was thinking. Fox News is 24/7 and SNL gets 1-1/2 hours a week. dameatball Sep 2018 #28
tRump blubbers. nt Mc Mike Sep 2018 #6
I kept waiting kaotikross Sep 2018 #7
Once SNL hit the heights with this skit, Totally Tunsie Sep 2018 #8
"Just the facts, sir. Just the facts." Doitnow Sep 2018 #10
Well asshole if you didn't see the show then why did you tweet................ turbinetree Sep 2018 #11
Alec Baldwin's probably going to make an appearance next week gay texan Sep 2018 #12
What about his campaign rallies he seems to have every month that's costing tax payers. YOHABLO Sep 2018 #13
Has he commented on Murphy Brown? greymattermom Sep 2018 #14
Hillary has something very important that DJT does not have: pazzyanne Sep 2018 #16
+++ agree iluvtennis Sep 2018 #18
If Dirty Donny* (R) doesn't watch SNL, then... Achilleaze Sep 2018 #15
Ignorance has never kept TRMP from chiming in. forgotmylogin Sep 2018 #21
Oh Donny is a hate watcher for sure! Initech Sep 2018 #34
Hopefully SNL will never invite West ever again. djacq Sep 2018 #17
It was brilliant Rorey Sep 2018 #38
It's damn sure funny which is why people watch SNL, ooky Sep 2018 #20
"Nobody is laughing at those Fake Jokes! My jokes at the UN got much higher ratings!" William Seger Sep 2018 #26
"I didn't watch it, but it was terrible, except for Kanye, who was great because MAGA" flibbitygiblets Sep 2018 #22
Oh no! He's discovered our Comedian Conspiracy! William Seger Sep 2018 #23
Plus One Trillion PaulX2 Sep 2018 #30
SNL is a weekly show, on for 90 minutes The Wizard Sep 2018 #24
Hey Shithole Liberalagogo Sep 2018 #25
And Your Boy Tried To Rape A Girl Trump PaulX2 Sep 2018 #27
What a whiney lil bitch. dameatball Sep 2018 #29
Just like faux news is not news, it's an ad for trump and the WH. notdarkyet Sep 2018 #31
Trump is the easiest target in the history of political satire. John Fante Sep 2018 #32
What? Kanye was a walking tRump advertisement! BigmanPigman Sep 2018 #33
Sorry Kanye. Initech Sep 2018 #36
Tough call caraher Oct 2018 #45
I saw Kanye's first performance Rorey Sep 2018 #37
Projection, because that's what FAUX does for him ebbie15644 Sep 2018 #40
Would someone PLEASE remind this trouser stain Haggis for Breakfast Sep 2018 #41
This here is 45 talking apkhgp Sep 2018 #42
TRUMP... dchill Oct 2018 #46
So what does Trump think Fox News does? Nitram Oct 2018 #47

unblock

(51,974 posts)
1. How did snl make anything seem worse than the actual performance?
Sun Sep 30, 2018, 01:26 PM
Sep 2018

If Donnie though kavanaugh's performance was great, how could he think Matt Damon's version was bad? It was largely more of the same.

39. They could have played the skit and hearing on a split screen.
Sun Sep 30, 2018, 07:27 PM
Sep 2018

It would be hard to tell which was more surreal.

irisblue

(32,829 posts)
19. Stollen from a Scot in a 2009 article about the windmills.
Sun Sep 30, 2018, 02:55 PM
Sep 2018

Last edited Sun Sep 30, 2018, 09:32 PM - Edit history (1)

He didn't want them in view of his Scottish Golf Course. They fought that hellbeast for years, and won. That is in part why he rambles on about windmills.
They truly chapped his draggy apricot ass.
Scotland The Brave.



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apkhgp

(1,068 posts)
43. Historians will look back on that name and instantly recall
Sun Sep 30, 2018, 08:55 PM
Sep 2018

"That's the asshole that wanted to drain the swamp and lock Hillary up. A complete waste of a human being".

apkhgp

(1,068 posts)
48. My keyboard and infinity are intimately acquainted
Mon Oct 1, 2018, 08:39 PM
Oct 2018

As for my ego, that is what has me going to family counseling.

Initech

(99,914 posts)
5. Hey Donny, you get hundreds of thousands of hours of news coverage a week.
Sun Sep 30, 2018, 01:38 PM
Sep 2018

We get an hour and a half of SNL a week. Go blow it out your ass.

dameatball

(7,380 posts)
28. Exactly what I was thinking. Fox News is 24/7 and SNL gets 1-1/2 hours a week.
Sun Sep 30, 2018, 04:45 PM
Sep 2018

And it is also after many people have gone to bed.

kaotikross

(246 posts)
7. I kept waiting
Sun Sep 30, 2018, 01:49 PM
Sep 2018

for that stupid hat Kanye was wearing to melt under the stage lights. Cut-rate nylon/recycled drink bottle fabric doesn't do well in the heat. Smart money says Kanye gets a rash from the FDA banned red dye and wears something covering his forehead for the next week.
Don't despair, fellow freedom lovers. Nobody takes a political endorsement seriously from a man who was dressed as a human-sized sparkling water bottle a half hour before he made it.

Totally Tunsie

(10,885 posts)
8. Once SNL hit the heights with this skit,
Sun Sep 30, 2018, 01:58 PM
Sep 2018

it was all downhill from there. Who could ever forget this stellar performance?

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turbinetree

(24,632 posts)
11. Well asshole if you didn't see the show then why did you tweet................
Sun Sep 30, 2018, 02:12 PM
Sep 2018

you don't know if you saw it or did not.........................

And your running around with the nuclear codes..........................

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
15. If Dirty Donny* (R) doesn't watch SNL, then...
Sun Sep 30, 2018, 02:42 PM
Sep 2018

how the Hell can he be criticizing the show? More republican lies. Sheesh.


* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

forgotmylogin

(7,496 posts)
21. Ignorance has never kept TRMP from chiming in.
Sun Sep 30, 2018, 03:22 PM
Sep 2018

Usually leading to 'Who knew ___ could be so difficult?'

Initech

(99,914 posts)
34. Oh Donny is a hate watcher for sure!
Sun Sep 30, 2018, 05:26 PM
Sep 2018

Egomaniacs like Donny are so driven by having a positive image of themselves that they will watch anything that has even the slightest mention of their name, whether it's good or bad.

djacq

(1,633 posts)
17. Hopefully SNL will never invite West ever again.
Sun Sep 30, 2018, 02:48 PM
Sep 2018

But Matt Damon’s performance as Kavanaugh was awesome!

ooky

(8,885 posts)
20. It's damn sure funny which is why people watch SNL,
Sun Sep 30, 2018, 02:58 PM
Sep 2018

and if it helps drive votes for democrats so much the better. Its not the dems fault if the people he picks make the jokes easy to write.

Besides, I've seen at least a dozen of his stupid, lying, pro Kavanaugh ads now.

flibbitygiblets

(7,220 posts)
22. "I didn't watch it, but it was terrible, except for Kanye, who was great because MAGA"
Sun Sep 30, 2018, 04:04 PM
Sep 2018

That about sum it up?

Oh, thanks for reminding me to watch my DVR, Anuslips McMushroomdick.

William Seger

(10,742 posts)
23. Oh no! He's discovered our Comedian Conspiracy!
Sun Sep 30, 2018, 04:07 PM
Sep 2018

SNL, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel, John Oliver, Trevor Noah, Bill Maher, Samantha Bee, ... If ridiculing this ridiculous president is "a political ad for the Dems" then we're getting BILLIONS in free advertising!

The Wizard

(12,482 posts)
24. SNL is a weekly show, on for 90 minutes
Sun Sep 30, 2018, 04:19 PM
Sep 2018

Pox News has been since inception a 24 / 7 Repubic campaign ad disguised as news. Bring back the Fairness Doctrine and watch Trump fulminate about the Fairness Doctrine being unfair. Such is the nature of propaganda.

John Fante

(3,479 posts)
32. Trump is the easiest target in the history of political satire.
Sun Sep 30, 2018, 05:11 PM
Sep 2018

He BEGS to be ridiculed, and we oblige.

The fact that insults clearly bother him (and he richly deserves it) makes the mockery that much more entertaining.

BigmanPigman

(51,432 posts)
33. What? Kanye was a walking tRump advertisement!
Sun Sep 30, 2018, 05:25 PM
Sep 2018

Live from New York, it’s Kanye West — with some opinions to share.
The “Wouldn’t Leave” rapper, 41, wrapped up the season premiere of Saturday Night Live with a third musical performance and a lengthy speech about his support of President Donald Trump that did not make it to air.

"It’s so many times that I talk to a white person about this, and they say, ‘How could you support Trump? He’s racist.’ Well if I was concerned about racism, I would have moved out of America a long time ago. We don’t just make our decisions off of racism. I’ma break it down to you right now: If someone inspires me and I connect with them, I don’t have to believe in all they policies. But this man is a builder,” West said of Trump. “And when I said I’m running in 2020, all my smart friends talked so much s— about me. And when I saw that man win, I said, ‘See, I told you. I could have been there.’”
In response, an audience member yelled, “F— Trump.” West added, “Now you got a situation where we need to have a dialogue and not a diatribe because if you want something to change, it’s not going to change by saying, ‘F— that person.’ Try love. Try love. Try love. Try love.” West ended his speech with an expression of gratitude. “Thank y’all for giving me this platform,” he concluded. “I know some of y’all don’t agree. But y’all be goin’ at that man neck a lot, and I don’t think it’s actually that helpful. I think the universe has balance. 90 percent of news are liberal. 90 percent of TV, L.A., New York, writers, actors, rappers, musicians. So it’s easy to make it seem like it’s so, so, so one-sided. And I feel kind of free. I thought this country said I couldn’t be me.”

Personally, I don't know who is more insane...him or his hero.

https://people.com/music/kanye-west-trump-speech-saturday-night-live/

Initech

(99,914 posts)
36. Sorry Kanye.
Sun Sep 30, 2018, 06:21 PM
Sep 2018

It's impossible to love such a horrible monster like Trump who supports white nationalism and Nazism,and separated innocent children from their families. You just can't. Fuck Trump.

Rorey

(8,445 posts)
37. I saw Kanye's first performance
Sun Sep 30, 2018, 06:39 PM
Sep 2018

Only because I was waiting for Weekend Update. I'm stunned that he actually gets paid for that crap.

Haggis for Breakfast

(6,831 posts)
41. Would someone PLEASE remind this trouser stain
Sun Sep 30, 2018, 08:25 PM
Sep 2018

That he's supposed to be the president.

I am so sick of his never-ending commentary about anything EXCEPT his fucking job.

apkhgp

(1,068 posts)
42. This here is 45 talking
Sun Sep 30, 2018, 08:34 PM
Sep 2018

To hear himself talk. He needs to assure himself that he is great everyday, and is fixated on telling everybody else about it.

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