Alec Baldwin appeared to accuse President Trump of putting his life in danger on Sunday.
‘I wonder if a sitting President exhorting his followers that my role in a TV comedy qualifies me as an enemy of the people constitutes a threat to my safety and that of my family?’ Baldwin tweeted on Sunday.
Baldwin was reacting to a tweet earlier on Sunday in which Trump criticized Saturday Night Live, the show on which the actor frequently portrays the president as bumbling and incompetent.
Trump on Sunday suggested his government should look carefully at SNL because of the show's comedic 'hit jobs' against Republicans.
‘I wonder if a sitting President exhorting his followers that my role in a TV comedy qualifies me as an enemy of the people constitutes a threat to my safety and that of my family?’ actor Alec Baldwin tweeted on Sunday
Baldwin played a sputtering, incompetent Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live following the president's border emergency declaration on Friday
Baldwin had lampooned him on the show nine hours earlier, telling a mock press conference in his Trump voice that 'you can all see why I have to fake this national emergency.'
Baldwin's alternative Trump said in the show's opening sketch that he would ultimately 'plead insanity.'
'Nothing funny about tired Saturday Night Live on Fake News NBC!' Trump blasted in a Sunday morning tweet. 'Question is, how do the Networks get away with these total Republican hit jobs without retribution? Likewise for many other shows? Very unfair and should be looked into. This is the real Collusion!'
Trump has been fighting claims for more than two years that his 2016 campaign colluded with agents of the Kremlin to impact the result of the presidential election.
'THE RIGGED AND CORRUPT MEDIA IS THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!' he tweeted Sunday.
The concept of a hopelessly biased political press corps is one argument that buoyed Trump's first candidacy, and which campaign insiders say he will return to repeatedly as he runs in 2020.
The real Trump fired back on Twitter, saying the show's broadsides against him 'should be looked into'
Cheering supporters met President Trump Friday night when he arrived in West Palm Beach for a golf weekend
He boasted in another tweet of a recent '52% Approval Rating' from a Rasmussen Reports poll, including '93% in Republican Party ( a record )!'
'Pretty amazing considering that 93% (also) of my press is REALLY BAD. The “people” are SMART!' he added.
In September the president proposed a review of NBC's broadcast license on the grounds that it exhibits political favoritism.
'NBC FAKE NEWS, which is under intense scrutiny over their killing the Harvey Weinstein story, is now fumbling around making excuses for
