{"id":18355,"date":"2016-12-04T17:40:09","date_gmt":"2016-12-04T17:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18355"},"modified":"2016-12-04T17:40:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-04T17:40:09","slug":"cmon-donald-grow-a-set-and-let-snl-have-its-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18355","title":{"rendered":"C&#8217;mon, Donald &#8230; grow a set and let &#8216;SNL&#8217; have its fun!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/trump-tweet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18356\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/trump-tweet-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"trump-tweet\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/trump-tweet-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/trump-tweet-768x517.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/trump-tweet.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump defends his use of Twitter because of its currency as a\u00a0&#8220;modern&#8221; form of communication.<\/p>\n<p>But, honest to bleeping goodness, Mr. President-elect. Get a grip here!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; has been poking fun at presidents and presidents-elect since it first went on the air in 1975. Presidents Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush the Elder, Clinton, Bush the Younger and Obama all have felt the good-natured barbs tossed by the &#8220;SNL&#8221; cast.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I need to remind the president-elect how George H.W. Bush invited &#8220;SNL&#8221; comedian Dana Carvey to the White House to participate in a 1992 Christmas party the president was hosting for his staff. Carvey introduced the president <em>as<\/em> the president, doing his famous impression of GHW Bush. The president loved it!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dana Carvey impersonates Bush and Perot\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z851sZXYq5g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now? We get these idiotic tweets from the next president, bitching about how &#8220;SNL&#8221; is unfunny and &#8220;unwatchable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Suck it up, Mr. President-elect. If you&#8217;re as tough as you say you are in dealing with foreign leaders &#8212; friend and foe alike &#8212; you need to learn to accept a little good-natured satire.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s part of the job &#8230; that you sought willingly.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald J. Trump defends his use of Twitter because of its currency as a\u00a0&#8220;modern&#8221; form of communication. But, honest to bleeping goodness, Mr. President-elect. Get a grip here! &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; has been poking fun at presidents and presidents-elect since it first went on the air in 1975. Presidents Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush the Elder, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18355\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">C&#8217;mon, Donald &#8230; grow a set and let &#8216;SNL&#8217; have its fun!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6716,1424,1892,4294],"class_list":["post-18355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-dana-carvey","tag-donald-trump","tag-george-hw-bush","tag-snl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18357,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18355\/revisions\/18357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}