Jon Stewart chased former President Trump for his resignation letter to The Screen Actors Guild – the American Federation of Radio and Television Artists (SAG-AFTRA), which came after the union threatened to expel his membership.
Fox News obtained exclusively the letter sent to SAG president Gabrielle Carteris on Thursday, in which the former president beat the union, the media and the media. SAG-AFTRA replied with just two words: “Thank you.”
On Twitter, former “Daily Show” host Stewart tried to achieve the same tone as Trump in a mock farewell letter.
“Me too, I resign SAG-AFTRA !!! You disappointed me too, you did nothing … I will no longer tolerate your gross abdication of … oh wait … I’m just —- and acting .. . never mind. President Jon Stewart, “he tweeted.
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Jon Stewart trolled Trump on Twitter after the former president criticized SAG-AFTRA in a resignation letter.
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Trump’s letter came after the union communicated its plans to hold a disciplinary committee hearing in order to revoke its membership.
“Who cares!” Trump wrote to Carteris.
Former Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat, also responded to Trump’s letter on Twitter with his own rebuke.
“As a proud member of the Screen Actors Guild – Matt Damon was my co-star at The Adjustment Bureau – I can say on behalf of my fellow SAG members that Donald Trump will not be missed,” McAuliffe, who announced last month that he is running to governor again in the state, he wrote.
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Screenwriter Brian Lynch, known for “Secret Life of Pets”, “Minions”, “Puss in Boots” and more, also joked: “Wait, so the name” Donald Trump “is now available on SAG? Because my life will start to change around there. “
“Family Guy” producer Alec Sulkin added, “Trump resigned from the SAG ?! There goes my remake of ‘The Swimmer’.”
Trump’s resignation letter on Wednesday criticized the SAG for its “policy failures” and further said that its “disciplinary failures are even more blatant”.
“Although I am not familiar with your work, I am very proud of my work in films like Home Alone 2, Zoolander and Wall Street: money never sleeps; and television shows, including The New Prince of Bel-Air, Saturday Live night, and of course, one of the most successful shows in television history, The Apprentice – to name just a few! “Trump wrote.
He also said he “helped the cable business a lot”, calling it “an agonizing platform with not much time until I got involved in politics”. Trump said he “created networks like MSDNC and Fake News CNN, among many others”.
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“/> The Screen Actors Guild board voted ‘overwhelmingly’ that former President Trump violated the union’s membership guidelines following the Capitol riot.
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“Which leads me to your blatant attempt to get the media’s attention to divert attention from your dark history as a union,” Trump wrote. “Your organization has done little for its members and nothing for me – other than charging fees and promoting dangerous non-American policies and ideas – as is evident from its huge unemployment rates and lawsuits from famous actors, who even recorded a video asking ‘Why that the union is not fighting for me? ‘”
Trump was referring to a video posted last year by actors such as Mark Hammill, Whoopi Goldberg and Morgan Freeman, among others, who criticized the union’s health insurance benefit cuts.
The president’s resignation came after the Screen Actors Guild board voted “overwhelmingly” that Trump violated the union’s membership guidelines in the wake of the Capitol riot.
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“Donald Trump attacked the values that this union considers most sacred – democracy, truth, respect for our fellow Americans of all races and religions, and the sanctity of the free press,” Carteris said last month. “There is a direct line to his unbridled disregard for the truth about attacks on journalists by his followers.”
“Our most important role as a union is the protection of our members. The sad truth is that the words and actions of this individual in the past four years have represented real damage to the members of our broadcast journalists,” said the National Executive Director of SAG-AFTRA , David White. “The council’s resolution addresses this effort to undermine press freedom and reaffirms the principles on which our democratic society is based, and which we must all work to protect and preserve.”
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Trump had been a member of the SAG since 1989. A disciplinary hearing was scheduled for this week.
Fox News’ Brooke Singman contributed to this report.