FCC releases 360 pages of Trump fans complaining about SNL

VICE

The pages and pages of complaints obtained through the Freedom of Information Act "paint a mesmerizing picture of an America obsessed with demanding government intervention to stop comedians from making mean jokes or saying curse words," says Vice's Matthew Gault, who reviewed the documents. “Cancel Culture has to be stopped, but you can not allow on any broadcast the depiction /insinuation/out right demonstration of a leader of the United States being assassinated,” one viewer wrote in 2019 after Michel Che delivered a John Wilkes Booth joke during "Weekend Update." Gault adds: "The complaints are of varying length and coherence but the vast majority of them focus on a few SNL moments over the last few years: Michael Che calling Trump a 'bitch' and a "'racker'; Alec Baldwin-as-Trump being mean to Trump; SNL writer Katie Rich making a joke on Twitter about Barron Trump being 'the next homeschool shooter;' and Stephen Colbert making a joke about Trump's mouth being Vladimir Putin's 'cock holster.'"