Trump Raises Talk of "Retribution" After Alec Baldwin's Latest SNL Appearance
On Saturday night, SNL once again trotted out Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump, this time to mock his idiotic national emergency that's supposed to get him his idiotic wall. Baldwin hasn't donned the wig and makeup and puckered face much this season, but in the past it seems that regardless of how well-done or not the sketch was, it rarely failed to infuriate the famously vapid and insecure president. This weekend's episode was no exception. On Sunday morning he tweeted:
Nothing funny about tired Saturday Night Live on Fake News NBC! 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. This is the real Collusion!
There are a lot of answers to why SNL and NBC don't face "retribution," including, obviously, "the First Amendment." Despite all his noise about "law and order," Trump is at his most spoiled and petulant when he thinks he's being treated "unfairly," which for him is a catchall term that applies to every criticism he doesn't like. But really, the question is a rhetorical one, a sleight of hand that lets Trump endorse "retribution" while giving him plausible deniability. When and if anyone asks him about it later, he'll furiously accuse them of twisting his words and being "unfair." It's a method he's used to casually condone violence since he started his campaign.
He followed the previous tweet with another reading, "THE RIGGED AND CORRUPT MEDIA IS THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!"
Just over a year ago, a man repeating Trump's language about the media was arrested for allegedly threatening a mass shooting at CNN headquarters in Atlanta. By the end of 2018, the U.S. was named one of the deadliest countries in the world for journalists.
