- Culture
- 31 Mar 17
Actor Alec Baldwin, who's earning rave reviews for his hilarious impersonation of Donald Trump, has revealed that it might be time to call it a day soon with the lampooning of the US President on SNL.
Asked if he was going to be doing his brilliant impersonation much longer, Alec Baldwin had this to say: "Not much longer. This season on SNL ... I'm going to do it as much as I can because I love them. They're my dear friends. After that, I don't quite know. I don't quite know if people want to continue with that. If everything stays the same in this country as it is now, I don't think people will be in the mood to laugh about it come September.
"We'll be around the corner to the one-year anniversary of the election this fall," he told the Press Association. "I think people will be in a completely different frame of mind. We'll see if this is actually the first satire-resistant president."
One person who will be happy to see the back of Baldwin's impersonation is the man himself, Donald Trump who has often taken to Twitter to rant about it.
The 46-year-old actress Tina Fey, who got her big break on SNL (Saturday Night Live), heavily criticized President Trump over his Twitter outbursts about how he’s being portrayed on the TV show by Alec Baldwin.
“At one level, it just makes me feel sick for the state of the world because it's so beneath a president, but also my feeling is: ’You think you're good at being a jerk on Twitter? You will now face the grandmaster of being a jerk!’” she says.
She also laughed-off Trump’s demands for an apology from SNL. “I thought, our president is a chump of a manager because don't put yourself in a position where you're asking for something and you're going to be told no. You're the president. You demanded an apology that you can't get. Bad management skills."