President-elect Donald Trump called “Saturday Night Live” a “terrible show” Wednesday in an interview with Matt Lauer.
Trump explained on the “Today” show that he doesn’t think “SNL” is a bad show just because of the way they mock him but overall the skits are “terrible” and the show just isn’t “funny.” (RELATED: This ‘Saturday Night Live’ Sketch Was Too Much For Donald Trump)
WATCH: “I like Alec, but his imitation of me is really mean-spirited and not very good.” @realdonaldtrump on #SNL https://t.co/NEslxLZJuS
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“Well, I hosted SNL when it was a good show, but it’s not a good show anymore,” Trump explained. “Nothing to do with me — there’s nothing funny about it. The skits are terrible.”
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“I mean, I like Alec [Baldwin], but his imitation of me is really mean-spirited and not very good,” he added. “I don’t think it’s good. I do like him, and I like him as an actor, but I don’t think his imitation of me gets me at all. And it’s meant to be very mean-spirited, which is very biased. I don’t like it. So I can tweet that out.”
The president-elect told Lauer he thinks the way the show is going it won’t be around much longer after the anchor asked why he doesn’t just choose not to watch.
“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,” Trump said. “It’s a terrible show.”
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Trump also defended his Twitter to get his message out.
“Frankly, it’s a modern day form of communication,” he added. “Between Facebook and Twitter, I have, I guess, more than 40 million people. That’s a modern day form of communication. I get it out much faster than a press release. I get it out much more honestly than dealing with dishonest reporters because so many reporters are dishonest.”
Trump has tweeted after the last two episodes of “SNL,” according to another report. Over the weekend he called the show “totally biased, not funny” and called out Baldwin’s impersonation of him as “sad.”