Baldwin replies to Trump's SNL Tweet

[RoxMonster]

www.yahoo.com/news/alec-baldwin-lectures-donald-trump-163845540.html

The article includes a few other Tweets, but here is one:

[WanderingWinoZ]

it's like Trump has missed the whole point of satire, irony, COMEDY!

exhibit A- the WHC dinner when Obama roasted him years ago, so THANKS OBAMA! we can blame you for Trump's hurt ego

[WanderingWinoZ]

also WTF with equal time??? does he think this is still a campiagn & that SNL should make fun of somebody else?
who is he going ot beat up on if he doens't have an opponent any more?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-time_rule

[wise_rita]

I honestly can't tell if Cheeto is a petulant child or just plain stupid.

[1yeartogo]

I hope with equal time he's not thinking state run propaganda for him.

[underwaterrhymes]

Nov 21, 2016 7:06:19 GMT -5 wise_rita said:

I honestly can't tell if Cheeto is a petulant child or just plain stupid.

Here's what I - pop psychologist - think it is:

I have a friend who is absolutely stunning. I mean, it's a trip to go places with her because the entire place turns around and stares. (And you get free drinks all night by default.) But if she goes out and someone doesn't hit on her or tell her she's beautiful, she gets super upset and self conscious and starts trying to get attention in less desirable ways. It's hard for her to maintain long term relationships because even when she's out with a boyfriend, she's come to accept people fawning all over her as validation she's beautiful and she'll seek it out - not in an attempt to cheat - but because that's what she knows.

In Trump's case, he has always gotten everything he wants. It's been handed to him and he's built this empire that has largely escaped focus because he was the boss and / or he was entertaining.

But any time someone questions his business or his opinions or his politics - because he's never had to deal with that - he has no fucking clue how to handle it. I don't think he's built book smarts and he sure as fuck has not built common sense.

And he's a narcissist and a sociopath to begin with, so if you add in ill-equipped to handle criticism, you get what the United States of Fucking America just decided to put in the White House.

[miniroller]

Nov 21, 2016 7:06:19 GMT -5 wise_rita said:

I honestly can't tell if Cheeto is a petulant child or just plain stupid.

Both 😢

*or more precisely: exactly what underwaterrhymes so eloquently stated

[turnipthebeet]

Nov 21, 2016 7:04:51 GMT -5 WanderingWinoZ said:

also WTF with equal time??? does he think this is still a campiagn & that SNL should make fun of somebody else?
who is he going ot beat up on if he doens't have an opponent any more?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-time_rule

I can't figure out how to embed tweets on mobile, but Alec Baldwin said basically exactly this.

[5thofjuly]

You know, Cheeto, this is just the beginning. And, as miserable as the next 4 years are going to be for so many Americans, I take some small comfort in knowing that if you're this thin skinned, they're going to be absolutely horrible for you in an entirely different way.

[WanderingWinoZ]

Nov 21, 2016 7:35:49 GMT -5 turnipthebeet said:

Nov 21, 2016 7:04:51 GMT -5 WanderingWinoZ said:

also WTF with equal time??? does he think this is still a campiagn & that SNL should make fun of somebody else?
who is he going ot beat up on if he doens't have an opponent any more?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-time_rule

I can't figure out how to embed tweets on mobile, but Alec Baldwin said basically exactly this.

for whatever reason, the Mobile twitter posts don' show up automatically

[ECB]

100% underwaterrhymes. 100%. He's surrounded himself with 'yes' people his entire life. And then his rallies? He said 1/2 the shit he said JUST to get people yelling and screaming his name. Not because he actually believed any of it.

But now that that's all over and now that he can't control how Americans respond to him... MAJOR reality check. And it's one that he simply isn't prepared to handle. He can't tell 50+ million people to like him. To say yes to him.

He picked the wrong thing to try and boost his ego.

[mrshandy]

Nov 21, 2016 7:41:25 GMT -5 5thofjuly said:

You know, Cheeto, this is just the beginning. And, as miserable as the next 4 years are going to be for so many Americans, I take some small comfort in knowing that if you're this thin skinned, they're going to be absolutely horrible for you in an entirely different way.

Yep. He is not cut out for this job if he can't handle a little SNL. It's going to be a long 4 years. 

[bex]

Nov 21, 2016 7:41:25 GMT -5 5thofjuly said:

You know, Cheeto, this is just the beginning. And, as miserable as the next 4 years are going to be for so many Americans, I take some small comfort in knowing that if you're this thin skinned, they're going to be absolutely horrible for you in an entirely different way.

I think he is going to HATE being president for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is going to be the constant criticism.

When do newscasters (like the news shows, not opinion shows) say "the president is doing a great job, yay!"

They downplay a lot of the good things presidents do - you might hear "Obama signed X bill into law today, much to the dismay of Republicans." I'm not saying it's ALL criticism, all the time, but the screaming crowds and such go away.  People hold you accountable for what the government as a whole is doing, or what is happening in the country, regardless of how much control you actually have.

So yes, he is going to be completely miserable, and that is one of the things keeping me going through this.

[GilliC]

Nov 21, 2016 7:43:01 GMT -5 WanderingWinoZ said:

Nov 21, 2016 7:35:49 GMT -5 turnipthebeet said:

I can't figure out how to embed tweets on mobile, but Alec Baldwin said basically exactly this.

for whatever reason, the Mobile twitter posts don' show up automatically

turnipthebeet - You just have to delete the "mobile." part of the URL

https://mobile.twitter.com/ABFalecbaldwin/status/800337003426484224

[Velar Fricative]

I hate that Alec Baldwin is making me like him.

[dcannie]

what does "equal time for us" even mean? he wants equal time spent on....them praising him? bashing someone else? who would that someone else be?

minor details, i know, i'm just genuinely confused by his thought process/his expectations.

[jeaniebueller]

I think that the SNL and Hamilton tweets are ridic, but wish that people would keep skewering him on the issue of his advisors and possible cabinet picks. This stuff is a distraction.

[Velar Fricative]

Nov 21, 2016 9:12:30 GMT -5 dcannie said:

what does "equal time for us" even mean? he wants equal time spent on....them praising him? bashing someone else? who would that someone else be?

minor details, i know, i'm just genuinely confused by his thought process/his expectations.

He still thinks SNL needs to be poking fun at Hillary for the next 4 years? Beats me.

[GilliC]

Nov 21, 2016 9:12:30 GMT -5 dcannie said:

what does "equal time for us" even mean? he wants equal time spent on....them praising him? bashing someone else? who would that someone else be?

minor details, i know, i'm just genuinely confused by his thought process/his expectations.

I get the impression that he thinks this is going to continue to be like the election, with two sides - the Dems/liberals and the Reps/conservatives. So since SNL spent some time making fun of the Republican president-elect, they should spend equal time poking fun at the Democrats (Obama, I guess?). [ETA - Ditto Velar Fricative]

I wonder when he's going to realize that the "biased media" wasn't just being pro-Hillary. They all really do think he's an imbecile.

[ECB]

Nov 21, 2016 9:12:30 GMT -5 dcannie said:

what does "equal time for us" even mean? he wants equal time spent on....them praising him? bashing someone else? who would that someone else be?

minor details, i know, i'm just genuinely confused by his thought process/his expectations.

Yes.  

[AAM2012]

The fact that he continues to use the word "us" scares the shit out of me.

Who is "us" and who's not?

#baldwinforprez

[al320]

You guys, it's 13 days since election day and im already totally exhausted from the bullshit shenanigans.

[notsocreepylurker]

Agree with poster above. The Hamilton stuff and SNL stuff is a DISTRACTION so we stop talking about his lawsuit settlement, or his picks or why the fuck his daughter met with the Japanese with him.

[earlgreyhot]

Nov 21, 2016 7:28:31 GMT -5 underwaterrhymes said:

Nov 21, 2016 7:06:19 GMT -5 wise_rita said:

I honestly can't tell if Cheeto is a petulant child or just plain stupid.

Here's what I - pop psychologist - think it is:

I have a friend who is absolutely stunning. I mean, it's a trip to go places with her because the entire place turns around and stares. (And you get free drinks all night by default.) But if she goes out and someone doesn't hit on her or tell her she's beautiful, she gets super upset and self conscious and starts trying to get attention in less desirable ways. It's hard for her to maintain long term relationships because even when she's out with a boyfriend, she's come to accept people fawning all over her as validation she's beautiful and she'll seek it out - not in an attempt to cheat - but because that's what she knows.

In Trump's case, he has always gotten everything he wants. It's been handed to him and he's built this empire that has largely escaped focus because he was the boss and / or he was entertaining.

But any time someone questions his business or his opinions or his politics - because he's never had to deal with that - he has no fucking clue how to handle it. I don't think he's built book smarts and he sure as fuck has not built common sense.

And he's a narcissist and a sociopath to begin with, so if you add in ill-equipped to handle criticism, you get what the United States of Fucking America just decided to put in the White House.

Just when I think I'm coming to a place of acceptance....another tsunami of rage nausea strikes. 

[pinkdutchtulips]

Nov 21, 2016 7:06:19 GMT -5 wise_rita said:

I honestly can't tell if Cheeto is a petulant child or just plain stupid.

my money's on plain stupid

[MixedBerryJam]

Nov 21, 2016 7:41:25 GMT -5 5thofjuly said:

You know, Cheeto, this is just the beginning. And, as miserable as the next 4 years are going to be for so many Americans, I take some small comfort in knowing that if you're this thin skinned, they're going to be absolutely horrible for you in an entirely different way.

I never really considered this, but it's making me feel marginally better. In an "I'm going to burn in hell" kind of way, but it's worth it.

[Champagne Supernova]

Sooooo, if his idol Putin criticizes him....how is he going to react?

[pitta12]

Nov 21, 2016 16:43:33 GMT -5 Champagne Supernova said:

Sooooo, if his idol Putin criticizes him....how is he going to react?

From what I have seen in various articles, Putin thinks Trump is an idiot, so this is bound to happen as soon as Trump flubs something up that Putin wants him to do.

[lyssbobiss, Command, B613]

Wasn't it "equal time" when he fucking HOSTED SNL? Like, earlier this year? (Or late last year, I didn't watch and won't, but I know he did a hotline bling video parody).

Maybe this is all some sort of performance art piece satirizing celebrity culture and freedom of speech and the press and he's doing a solid modern-day John Adams impression. This is the only explanation I will accept from now on for this level of shitty behavior demanding censorship.