Alec Baldwin's Knock-Out SNL Skits as Trump Are Making the President-Elect's Head Explode More Than Anything Else

Alexandra Rosenmann
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 Alexandra Rosenmann
December 05, 2016

Believe it or not, Alec Baldwin was once Donald Trump's first pick to portray him—ironic, now that the "Saturday Night Live" actor appears to be getting under Trump's skin more than anyone else.

"I think I'm a much nicer guy than he's portraying. He's portraying somebody who's very mean and nasty, and I'm not mean and nasty. I think I'm a much nicer person than he's portraying. So I think it's an inaccurate portrayal of me," Donald Trump told Extra’s AJ Calloway in October.

"They're making me out to be a very mean, bad kind of guy," Trump repeated, "and that's not me."

It was exactly one year before Election Day when Trump praised SNL after appearing on the show alongside several Trump impersonators. 

Yet, once Trump decided the media was "rigged," not even "Saturday Night Live," which satirized both Trump and Hillary Clinton, was spared a Twitter attack.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I watched parts of <a data-cke-saved-href="https://twitter.com/nbcsnl" href="https://twitter.com/nbcsnl">@nbcsnl</a> Saturday Night Live last night. It is a totally one-sided, biased show - nothing funny at all. Equal time for us?</p>— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a data-cke-saved-href="

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">November 20, 2016</a></blockquote> <!--{cke_protected}

So Alec Baldwin had the perfect response this week:

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