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Alec Baldwin has made it very clear that he’s no fan of Donald Trump and has regularly gone after the president-elect. He has also found success in recent months with his over-the-top portrayals of Trump on “Saturday Night Live.”
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During a recent interview with Katie Couric on the “Katie Couric” podcast, the actor had a lot to say about President-elect Trump.
“Everywhere he’s gone, he’s abused power and people who are less powerful than him,” Baldwin said about our soon-to-be president.
Although Baldwin, who fell out of public favor for several years after a recording of him calling his daughter a “pig” was released, admitted that he’s been in the wrong “a handful of times,” he sees Trump as a “malicious” person.
When talking about comparing Trump to other characters he’s impersonated, Baldwin said, “Whether it was Tony Bennett or Pacino or DeNiro … there’s an element of appreciation for them. With Trump, I don’t have that element of appreciation, which makes it difficult.”
“The key to doing him was to be a man who paused regularly, almost metronomically paused, to dig for a better word—and never came up with a better word,” he explained of his approach to playing Trump on “SNL”.
“I don’t say this to pile up on him or be mean or anything,” he added but went on to point out that Trump is “not admired at all” in New York. “When you see Trump in social circles in New York, he was endured,” Baldwin said.
You can listen to Baldwin’s full interview below:
https://soundcloud.com/katiecouricshow/17-alec-baldwin-impersonator-in-chief
