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.
May I recommend you set your DVR to record SNL for as long as Donald Trump is president? It would be torture for him to see their ratings skyrocket, wouldn’t it?
Here’s the skit:
And, as always, Alec Baldwin says he’ll stop doing the impression if Donald Trump will release his taxes. Looks like we’ll have many more years of Baldwin’s impression to yet to come.