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- On Friday, The Daily Wire reported that Katie Rich, a writer for NBC comedy show Saturday Night Live, had viciously targeted President Trump’s 10-year-old son Barron in a crude tweet designed to demonize the first family.
- After an unrelenting backlash by disgusted Americans on social media, the show has chosen to suspend Rich indefinitely. Roughly 80,000 people signed a Change.org petition, calling for her to be fired. Rich suspended her Twitter account following the outcry.
- To prevent advertisers from backing out of commercials, the show met the angry mob halfway, suspending Rich rather than firing her.
- On Monday afternoon, the SNL writer restored her account and tweeted a generic apology that read: “I sincerely apologize for the insensitive tweet. I deeply regret my actions & offensive words. It was inexcusable & I’m so sorry.”
- Throughout the campaign season and beyond, SNL has gone out of its way to attack Trump, employing Alec Baldwin as a gruff impersonator. The liberal show hardly laid a finger on failed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, breaking the fourth wall on multiple occasions to sympathize with the Democratic party.
- In response, Trump has called SNL “really bad television.”
- But Rich’s unfunny attack against the president targeted his son, a line that even Trump-hating SNL wasn’t willing to cross.
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