Alec Baldwin ‘may retire’ Donald Trump impersonation on Saturday Night Live
Alec Baldwin has said he ‘may retire’ his Donald Trump impersonation on Saturday Night Live.
Baldwin – who angered the President with his “mean-spirited” sketches – said he is unsure if people would be “in the mood to laugh” about Mr Trump in the lead up to the anniversary of his first year in office.
Asked how much longer he planned on playing Mr Trump, Baldwin told the Press Association: “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. I think people will be in a completely different frame of mind.
“We’ll see if this is actually the first satire-resistant president.”
Baldwin said he would need to be paid an “ungodly amount of money” to play the businessman in a film or TV show as taking on Mr Trump is “exhausting”.
He said: “I don’t know if I’d want to be Trump for more than a five-minute slug of time on Saturday Night Live. You’d have to pay me an ungodly amount of money because it would be exhausting. It would be tiresome.”
Baldwin also mocked Mr Trump on the eve of his inauguration. At a protest outside Trump Towers he impersonated the Republican and repeatedly referenced his alleged ties to Russia.
Impersonating Mr Trump he said: “I’ve been standing out here in the freezing cold for a long time. I have to go to the bathroom and I need to pee.
“I’m holding it in I’m holding it in. I’m not going to pee. I’m going to a function at the Russian consulate tonight. I’m going to hold it in until I get there.
“Then I’m going to have a really long pee.”
