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The Snowflake in Chief

President Trump suggests that comedy sketches making fun of him warrant “retribution” and investigation.
Source: Mario Anzuoni / Reuters

To support President Donald Trump is to be complicit in the rule of a thin-skinned authoritarian who denigrates the free-speech rights of people who criticize him.

The latest illustration: his weekend outburst against , a sketch-comedy show that has regularly poked fun at every. “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!”

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