Trump invited to SNL

U.S. President Donald Trump — the real one — could have been on Saturday Night Live earlier this year, according to Alec Baldwin.

In an appearance on Ellen, Baldwin revealed that SNL had invited Trump to make an appearance back in February.

“When I hosted SNL this season (for a record 17th time), we invited him to come,” Baldwin told Ellen DeGeneres. “We were so hopeful he would come, but he didn’t show up.”

Baldwin made similar comments last month on The Howard Stern Show.

The SiriusXM host asked Baldwin if appearing with Trump would have implied that the actor supported his policies.

Baldwin, an outspoken critic of Trump, didn’t think so, telling Stern that “SNL is an entertainment show. It’s there to entertain and then, when that’s over with, I don’t hold back.”

Trump hosted Saturday Night Live in November 2015 when he was a presidential candidate, but it’s no secret that he and Saturday Night Live have a pretty adversarial relationship these days.

Last year, Trump attacked the show repeatedly, calling it “unwatchable” and “not funny at all.”

That was back when SNL was mining comedy from a chaotic election cycle and Trump’s unexpected victory in the presidential election.

Despite Trump not accepting SNL’s invitation, there was still a lot of him on the show that night.

Baldwin impersonated him in a spoof of The People’s Court, and Leslie Jones tried to make the case for her own Trump impersonation in a sketch that also featured Vanessa Bayer donning a suit and blond wig.