SNL lambastes Donald Trump's weird Twitter addiction

Saturday Night Live returned with an opener featuring Alec Baldwin's Twitter-happy President-elect Donald Trump, as well as the random Twitter users he loves to retweet. While Kate McKinnon’s Kellyanne Conway vainly attempted to wrangle Trump for a security briefing, the apparently irresistible lure of sharing the words of complete strangers with millions of people just kept pulling him back to his phone.

Though the sketch was ripped from real life (Trump actually did retweet a 16-year-old high school kid weighing in on voter fraud last week), the man himself was yet again displeased with SNL's portrayal. "Just tried watching Saturday Night Live — unwatchable!" he said on Twitter, apparently without irony. "Totally biased, not funny and the Baldwin impersonation just can't get any worse." Watch the offending skit below. Bonnie Kristian

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.