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Trump Tweets about SNL While Making Fun of His Tweets

This is how he's going to "deal" with ISIS. Start a Twitter war.
 
rabbitcaebannog said:
Alec does an amazing job playing that role. Satire at its best.
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I have no problem with satire and appreciate the tool as a good way to attack and expose the powerful.

I would have greater respect for the SNL satire if it was equally as accurate in its satire to both sides of the political spectrum.

I think I posted here earlier that there was a rich vein of humor to me mined by SNL in the neck wrenching outcome of the election in light of the expected outcome.

The opening of SNL on the Saturday following the election was a mourning grief service of the demise of Hillary instead of what it could and should have been: an examination and humorous review of the bias and prejudice of the news, entertainment and polling industries.

A missed opportunity and as revealing as any satire they have ever presented.

The satire in this is that they didn't even know they were doing what they did. Exposed before all and unaware of it.
 
code1211 said:
I have no problem with satire and appreciate the tool as a good way to attack and expose the powerful.

I would have greater respect for the SNL satire if it was equally as accurate in its satire to both sides of the political spectrum.

I think I posted here earlier that there was a rich vein of humor to me mined by SNL in the neck wrenching outcome of the election in light of the expected outcome.

The opening of SNL on the Saturday following the election was a mourning grief service of the demise of Hillary instead of what it could and should have been: an examination and humorous review of the bias and prejudice of the news, entertainment and polling industries.

A missed opportunity and as revealing as any satire they have ever presented.

The satire in this is that they didn't even know they were doing what they did. Exposed before all and unaware of it.
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I don't know. I saw them pick fun at Hillary too.
 
code1211 said:
I have no problem with satire and appreciate the tool as a good way to attack and expose the powerful.

I would have greater respect for the SNL satire if it was equally as accurate in its satire to both sides of the political spectrum.

I think I posted here earlier that there was a rich vein of humor to me mined by SNL in the neck wrenching outcome of the election in light of the expected outcome.

The opening of SNL on the Saturday following the election was a mourning grief service of the demise of Hillary instead of what it could and should have been: an examination and humorous review of the bias and prejudice of the news, entertainment and polling industries.

A missed opportunity and as revealing as any satire they have ever presented.

The satire in this is that they didn't even know they were doing what they did. Exposed before all and unaware of it.
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How so?
 
ModerateGOP said:
Pretty sad. Does he realize he fell for the trap?
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Jetboogieman said:
He's a thin skinned ***** of a man.
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I'm afraid this is just not going to work. It's time to have the conversation and form a search committee to find ourselves a new POTUS.



He has shown his thin-skin overrides his judgement and restraint multiple times since he was elected. The game hasn't even started (when the consequences get serious) and he can't seem to even handle the pre-game warm-up.

Hey, electoral college... it may be time to do your job in the Hamiltonian sense. It may be time for discernment from those that possess the information...

https://www.congress.gov/resources/display/content/The+Federalist+Papers#TheFederalistPapers-68

"....It was equally desirable, that the immediate election should be made by men most capable of analyzing the qualities adapted to the station, and acting under circumstances favorable to deliberation, and to a judicious combination of all the reasons and inducements which were proper to govern their choice. A small number of persons, selected by their fellow-citizens from the general mass, will be most likely to possess the information and discernment requisite to such complicated investigations...."

Two Electors Are Trying to Withhold the Presidency from Donald Trump - The Atlantic

God save the United States of America.
 
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rabbitcaebannog said:
I don't know. I saw them pick fun at Hillary too.
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In watching the skits, I appeared to me that Hillary was portrayed humorously, but that Trump was portrayed cruelly.

I remember the skits with Bush and Gore and they both seemed to have portrayed humorously.

My views and memories could, though, simply be revealing of MY biases.
 
code1211 said:
In watching the skits, I appeared to me that Hillary was portrayed humorously, but that Trump was portrayed cruelly.
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WTF? How do you portray someone as cruelly? Now Kate Mckinnon as Hillary singing Hallelujah. That was cruel!
 
code1211 said:
In watching the skits, I appeared to me that Hillary was portrayed humorously, but that Trump was portrayed cruelly.

I remember the skits with Bush and Gore and they both seemed to have portrayed humorously.

My views and memories could, though, simply be revealing of MY biases.
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Yes, satire can come across as cruel and I think the point of satire. The one that comes to mind is Bush playing with a ball of yarn like a kitten. Satire will do that to anyone though. They will pick the low points of a person and highlight them in an exaggerated way. They did this with Clinton as an image queen which is a role she most definitely plays.
 
I HOPE that when Trump actually takes office someone takes away his cell phone and shuts down his Twitter account. Unfortunately, even if they do I suspect he will create an unconvincing sock and get right back to it.
 
ModerateGOP said:
Pretty sad. Does he realize he fell for the trap?

Trump Tweets '''SNL''' Is '''Unwatchable''' ... After Sketch About His Tweets - NBC News
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They said it right in the skit: it's to distract from his conflicts of interest. Accusing him of being stupid and unstable (even if he is emotionally unstable) will only get you so far after he won the primaries and the national election.

Trump has been gish-galloping us all along. There is simply no way to cogently focus on the tweets, bigotry, lies, judge appointments, cabinet appointments and conflicts of interest all at the same time. Doing so without losing focus and becoming emotionally exhausted is impossible, so I think we need to pick one thing and hammer at that, and to me the most logical focal point should be the idea that he really did become President just to increase his international leverage for his own financial gain.
 
VanceMack said:
I HOPE that when Trump actually takes office someone takes away his cell phone and shuts down his Twitter account. Unfortunately, even if they do I suspect he will create an unconvincing sock and get right back to it.
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At this point you can very easily tell when it's Trump tweeting and when it's not. HINT: It's usually early in the morning :) Plus I heard somewhere that Trump doesn't have a smartphone. He uses a laptop fetched by an intern to tweet.
 
code1211 said:
In watching the skits, I appeared to me that Hillary was portrayed humorously, but that Trump was portrayed cruelly.

I remember the skits with Bush and Gore and they both seemed to have portrayed humorously.

My views and memories could, though, simply be revealing of MY biases.
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"Trump portrayed cruelly".

Good lord, for a campaign at least in part, predicated on the idea that PC was for ******s and sensitive souls need to get over themselves... he and the trumpettes are pretty touchy.

Portrayed cruelly:lamo
 
code1211 said:
In watching the skits, I appeared to me that Hillary was portrayed humorously, but that Trump was portrayed cruelly.

I remember the skits with Bush and Gore and they both seemed to have portrayed humorously.

My views and memories could, though, simply be revealing of MY biases.
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Do you need a safe space?
 
ModerateGOP said:
At this point you can very easily tell when it's Trump tweeting and when it's not. HINT: It's usually early in the morning :) Plus I heard somewhere that Trump doesn't have a smartphone. He uses a laptop fetched by an intern to tweet.
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Ive heard that as well. Maybe he is sleep twitting.
 
ModerateGOP said:
WTF? How do you portray someone as cruelly? Now Kate Mckinnon as Hillary singing Hallelujah. That was cruel!
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I thought her performance was outstanding!

A good example of a cruel portrayal vs a humorous portrayal can be found in Charlie Chaplin's portrayal of the Hitler character in "The Great Dictator".

He portrayed the Nazi humorously and revealed to the public a cruel and shallow, murderous and hurtful maniac.

It was the first fully sounded film in Chaplin's entertainment career.

If ever an individual deserved to be portrayed cruelly, it's Hitler. Chaplin's portrayal was humorous, revealing and devastatingly accurate, but not overtly cruel.

Despite the lack of cruelty, or maybe because of it, the public was allowed to take its own opinion. The second creation that defines the difference between art and craft.

The difference is similar to a beautiful painting and a crude remark in a graffiti spray painted presentation.
 
Cardinal said:
They said it right in the skit: it's to distract from his conflicts of interest. Accusing him of being stupid and unstable (even if he is emotionally unstable) will only get you so far after he won the primaries and the national election.

Trump has been gish-galloping us all along. There is simply no way to cogently focus on the tweets, bigotry, lies, judge appointments, cabinet appointments and conflicts of interest all at the same time. Doing so without losing focus and becoming emotionally exhausted is impossible, so I think we need to pick one thing and hammer at that, and to me the most logical focal point should be the idea that he really did become President just to increase his international leverage for his own financial gain.
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Should ya maybe wait til his inauguration and his official actions as president before you make that call?
 
Cardinal said:
They said it right in the skit: it's to distract from his conflicts of interest. Accusing him of being stupid and unstable (even if he is emotionally unstable) will only get you so far after he won the primaries and the national election.

Trump has been gish-galloping us all along. There is simply no way to cogently focus on the tweets, bigotry, lies, judge appointments, cabinet appointments and conflicts of interest all at the same time. Doing so without losing focus and becoming emotionally exhausted is impossible, so I think we need to pick one thing and hammer at that, and to me the most logical focal point should be the idea that he really did become President just to increase his international leverage for his own financial gain.
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Good luck..
 
Jetboogieman said:
"Trump portrayed cruelly".

Good lord, for a campaign at least in part, predicated on the idea that PC was for ******s and sensitive souls need to get over themselves... he and the trumpettes are pretty touchy.

Portrayed cruelly:lamo
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I suppose we hear what we want to hear.

To me the message was that the policies of the US in the last 20 or so years have not led to the benefit of the common man.

We need to try something new and check the outcomes of that.

Do you have a link of trump saying that "PC was for ******s"? As I recall, the word "*****" was used in a different context.
 
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