Alec Baldwin’s ‘Fantastic’ voyage
You’ll want to #BookmarkThis. On Nov. 8, join USA TODAY for a Facebook Live chat with actor Alec
Baldwin about his new book, You Can’t Spell America Without Me: A So-Called Parody: The Really Tremendous Inside Story of My Fantastic First Year as President Donald J. Trump.
#BookmarkThis is a series of live video chats with best-selling au- thors, and fans can sub- mit questions. It’s a great opportunity to touch base with Baldwin, who brings his Emmy Awardwinning Saturday Night Live Trump impersonation to book form (complete with hilarious original photographs).
Channeling the president ...
You Can’t Spell America Without Me (Penguin Press, on sale Nov. 7) is cowritten with political commentator and author Kurt Andersen (Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire). It’s a first-person parody “memoir” by the president that goes behind the scenes at the White House (son Barron is a stealth adviser) and gives constant updates on Trump’s golf game. (There are many, many holes-in-one.)
Since he started donning an orange wig, pursing his lips, squinting and waving his hands around a lot on SNL, Baldwin seems to have become Trump.
... while Trump hits back
Baldwin is no fan of the president, however. The disdain is mutual. “Watched Saturday Night Live hit job on me. Time to retire the boring and unfunny show. Alec Baldwin portrayal stinks,” Trump tweeted last year before the election.
Will the president find the parody book funny? Twitter thinks not.
Before SNL’s new season began, Baldwin, 59, told USA TODAY he hopes his impersonation spurs voters to turn out for the 2018 midterm elections and “start to change the direction we’re going. Because I’ve never been more fearful about the future of the country than I am now.”
When he’s not impersonating the president, Baldwin has a busy movie career. Recent credits include The Baby
Boss and Blind. He’s also the author of the 2017 memoir Nevertheless, and for many years played Tina Fey’s boss, Jack Donaghy, on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock.
How to join the chat
Join the Facebook Live chat Nov. 8 at 2:30 p.m. ET/11:30 a.m. PT on the USA TODAY Life Facebook page. To learn more or to submit questions, visit BaldwinChat.usatoday.com