‘That is maligning Waffle House’: Twitter defends restaurant after SNL

Social media had strong reactions after Alec Baldwin as President Donald Trump joked about Waffle House on “Saturday Night Live.”

“I said I was going to run this country like a business. That business is a Waffle House at 2 a.m.,” Baldwin’s Trump said to in-studio applause. “Crazies everywhere, staff walking out in the middle of their shift, managers taking money out of the cash register to pay off the Russian mob.”

A quick poll of Twitter showed almost all the reactions to that joke agreed with the live studio audience.

“I said I was going to run this country like a business, and that business is a Waffle House at 2 AM...” ~ @nbcsnl pic.twitter.com/bQD1aiLBmv
— Kimberly (@KimberlyWriter) March 4, 2018

😂😂😂 #SNL 45 running the White House like a business....A Waffle House at 2 am! Accurate!!
— Maggie (@Magnolia_Angel) March 4, 2018

Watching the opening of SNL and Alec Baldwin, playing Trump says “I am going to run the “White House like a business”, sadly that business is like a Waffle House at 2 am. 😳😳😂😂😂
— Martha merino (@Marleeot) March 4, 2018

"I said I was gonna run this country like a business... that business is a Waffle House at 2 am." 😂😂😂 @nbcsnl #sotrue
— Blue Luciferase (@bankedcurve23) March 4, 2018

Waffle House at 2 am is a shifty scene, just like this White House. This isn't a joke at the expense of hard working people. Let's laugh a little.
— Ole Tippecanoe (@TippeTyYay) March 4, 2018

"Running this country like a business, and that business is a Waffle House at 2am."-@nbcsnl 3/3/18.

Just about the best description of our government I've heard yet. #amazing #spoton
— KJ (@Pipsquak88) March 4, 2018

A few people defended Waffle House, a chain of restaurants so resilient the federal government uses them to gauge the severity of natural disasters.

Whoever wrote this has not seen the ruthless efficiency of a Waffle House at 2 AM. https://t.co/3Dl6Ob7hz6
— Christina Reynolds (@creynoldsnc) March 4, 2018

The good people of the 2 am Waffle House do not deserve this calumny as they honorably scatter, smother, & cover all of America at all hours.
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) March 4, 2018

That is maligning Waffle House. Waffle House at 2am makes far more sense than this administration. RT @jasonbres: "I said I was gonna run this country like a business. That business is a Waffle House at 2 am." #SNL
— Robin McWaters (@crouchingtyler) March 4, 2018