Let Trump Play Trump on ‘S.N.L.’

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/opinion/trump-snl.html

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To the Editor:

Re “ ‘S.N.L.’ Returns With a Surprising Hesitance” (Arts pages, Oct. 2):

It may be time to replace Alec Baldwin with the only character more ridiculous as commander in chief than his portrayal of the president: the real Donald Trump.

There’s no juice left in satirizing an already absurd situation. Better to let Mr. Trump’s own words mock him. Why not splice together his most unintelligible, idiotic and nonsensical utterances each week and play them as is?

That was how Edward R. Murrow brought down Senator Joseph McCarthy. You can downplay parody, but you can’t disassociate yourself from your own words.

DOUG EDWARDS, LOS ALTOS, CALIF.