'This week's 'Saturday Night Live' episode intentionally trolled the President by taking a page out of Trump's own playbook and then getting it to trend on his favorite social media platform: Twitter.' writes Dean Obeidallah for CNNOpinion.
Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio's daily program"The Dean Obeidallah Show" and a columnist for The Daily Beast. Follow him @DeanObeidallah. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion articles on CNN
Jokes on"Saturday Night Live" at the expense of Donald Trump have triggered the notoriously thin-skinned President numerous times over the past few years -- as evidenced by his angry tweets lashing out at the show. Trump's has taken to Twitter to call the show everything from"not funny" to being a part of the media's"total Republican hit job.
Dean ObeidallahThrough all of this,"SNL" was simply presenting their comedic take on Trump -- as they have done for all Presidents since the show launched in October 1975. But on this week's episode, the show took it a step further and intentionally trolled Trump —and they did it by taking a page out of Trump's own playbook and then getting it to trend on his favorite social media platform: Twitter.
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