Watch the Saturday Night Live Sketch That Enraged Donald Trump

By MATTHEW DESSEM • DEC 16, 2018

President Donald Trump is having a normal one. On Sunday morning, he mused that perhaps the people behind Saturday Night Live should be sued or prosecuted, which, in fairness to Trump, is a thought most Americans have had at some point or another. But most Americans aren’t president, and most Americans understand that, whatever crimes were committed during the creation of “The Whiners,” collusion was not one of them. Donald Trump, on the other hand, is president and doesn’t seem to understand anything at all, which is how you get things like this tweet, the jumping-off point for another another unnerving heathside soliloquy from our homegrown Lear:

The immediate target of Trump’s ire was presumably the show’s cold open, in which Alec Baldwin returned to take on the challenging role of “a man so stupid he thinks you can sue people for ‘collusion’ if they make mean jokes about you.” He nailed it:

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