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One of the many criticisms leveled at President Donald Trump after he assumed office in January 2017 was that he seemed too thin-skinned about being mocked or made fun of, most notably exemplified by Trump's issuing multiple complaining tweets about actor Alec Baldwin's spoofing portrayals of him on Saturday Night Live. This behavior was soon contrasted online by the circulation of an image macro supposedly demonstrating that President Lyndon Johnson's response to being repeatedly satirized by the Smothers Brothers on their comedy-variety television series in the late 1960s was to send the duo a letter lauding their humor — even if it came at the expense of poking fun at his administration: Although the letter seemed too pat to some viewers to be real, its origins weren't difficult to verify. NPR's Fresh Air had recently profiled the Smothers Brothers' biting satire ... 50 years [on], and in the course of that segement they noted: President Johnson may have been disgruntled with CBS at the time the Smothers Brothers were on the air and using him as the target of satire, but when their program aired its final installment on 20 April 1969 — by which time Johnson was out of office — he had eased up somewhat in his viewpoint: Mention of the letter also appeared in the 2009 book Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour':
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