President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday that Alec Baldwin’s impersonation of him on “Saturday Night Live” is intentionally mean-spirited and isn’t very good, though he said he does like Mr. Baldwin as an actor.

“Well, I hosted SNL when it was a good show, but it’s not a good show anymore,” Mr. Trump said on NBC’s “Today” program.

“First of all, nothing to do with me — there’s nothing funny about it. The skits are terrible,” he said. “I like Alec [Baldwin], but his imitation of me is really mean-spirited and not very good.”

“I do like him and I like him as an actor, but I don’t think that his imitation of me gets me at all,” Mr. Trump said. “And it’s meant to be very mean-spirited, which is very biased.”

“Frankly, the way the show is going now and you look at the kind of work they’re doing, who knows how long that show is going to be on? It’s a terrible show,” he said.

Mr. Trump had been asked if it would be better at this point to simply stop watching the show, instead of watching it and then complaining about it.

“Just tried watching Saturday Night Live — unwatchable! Totally biased, not funny and the Baldwin impersonation just can’t get any worse. Sad,” Mr. Trump had tweeted very early Sunday morning.

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