J. Martinez writes to ask…
I see where Trump is demanding an "investigation" of Saturday Night Live. What do you think this investigation will reveal?
Well, just the demand for it plus today's hysterical attacks on John McCain reveal that Donald Trump has just about the thinnest-skin on the planet. I doubt there will ever be any such investigation. If there were, it would reveal that SNL is continuing its long tradition of mocking whoever's president at the moment. It might reveal that they find a lot more to mock with Trump than they have with a few others but, you know, you probably have more criticisms of one president than another.
My guess is that Trump is trying to set up a conspiracy theory on which his most loyal supporters can feast. It would be something about how the attacks on him on SNL and maybe other late night shows are illegitimate because they're part of some sort of collusion (there's that word) with the Democratic party. He could then denounce the sketches not as satire but as dishonest and possibly illegal treachery. Or something. Many of his followers seem willing to believe that anything they don't like was secretly funded by George Soros and can therefore be written off as phony and part of some Big Lie.
There may not even be that much logic behind it. Trump's just one of those guys who, any time someone says something negative about him, he feels he has to pick up the nearest object and throw it at them. Doesn't care what he throws or who it hits or what the result of his retaliation is. He just has to throw something.