Saturday Night Live: Watch the Alec Baldwin impersonation that has angered Donald Trump (again)

'I just retweeted the best tweet. I mean, wow, what a great smart tweet'

Even after being declared President-elect of the United States of America, Donald Trump has courted controversy, whether through cabinet appointments or breaking protocols by accepting certain phone calls.

As with any politically messy situation, satirical late-night show Saturday Night Live was quick to poke fun, once again employing Alec Baldwin to impersonate Trump despite him publicly taking issue with the impersonation before.

“Kellyanne,” Baldwin’s Trump said in the opening sketch, “I just retweeted the best tweet. I mean, wow, what a great smart tweet.”

Another SNL cast member interrupts, saying they are in a security briefing, but Trump goes off again: “It was from a young man named Seth, he’s 16 and he’s in high school and I really did retweet him. Seth seems so cool – his twitter bio states he wants to make America great again. It also states he loves the Anaheim Ducks.”

Baldwin wasn’t lying: the Republican really did retweet a young man named Seth (AKA @jeffzeleny). After the SNL sketch, Seth even responded on Twitter, saying: “It seems like the Alec Baldwin impersonation gets worse every week - failing SNL is sad!”

After mocking his Tweeting habits, SNL then took aim at the now infamous photo of Trump and Mitt Romney (“Can I have a picture of us together where he looks like a little b**ch?”) and controversial figure Steve Bannon, who was characterised as the Grim Reaper.

Despite SNL poking fun at Trump’s impulse Tweeting, the President-elect Tweeted about the sketch 45 minutes later, saying: “Just tried watching Saturday Night Live - unwatchable! Totally biased, not funny and the Baldwin impersonation just can't get any worse. Sad.”

Ironic? Just a little. Over the last few weeks, Trump has continually Tweeted about SNL’s portrayal of him, getting into a Twitter spat with Baldwin over his impression.