The hosts of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” could not stop laughing Wednesday while discussing a Tuesday report that former president Donald Trump wanted the government to stop “Saturday Night Live” from making fun of him.
“This is really unbelievable,” observed co-host Mika Brzezinski.
According to a Daily Beast article published Tuesday, Trump didn’t just want the Federal Communications Commission to probe “SNL” — where Alec Baldwin played him for years — for lampooning his single-term administration. He asked his advisers and lawyers if the Department of Justice could somehow intervene on his behalf, too.
The report noted he also wondered whether the court system could do something about the late-night shows’ jabs at him. And while that might sound like serious overreach, one of the Beast’s anonymous sources said, “It was more annoying than alarming, to be honest with you.”
Trump denied the report on Tuesday, offering a lengthy statement...
“This is really unbelievable,” observed co-host Mika Brzezinski.
According to a Daily Beast article published Tuesday, Trump didn’t just want the Federal Communications Commission to probe “SNL” — where Alec Baldwin played him for years — for lampooning his single-term administration. He asked his advisers and lawyers if the Department of Justice could somehow intervene on his behalf, too.
The report noted he also wondered whether the court system could do something about the late-night shows’ jabs at him. And while that might sound like serious overreach, one of the Beast’s anonymous sources said, “It was more annoying than alarming, to be honest with you.”
Trump denied the report on Tuesday, offering a lengthy statement...
- 6/23/2021
- by Lindsey Ellefson
- The Wrap
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