Alec Baldwin’s new role
returned this past weekend after a three-week break. Comedian Louis C.K. served as host while the band The Chainsmokers were musical guests.
But perhaps all anyone will be talking about is Alec Baldwin’s political commentary in the form of his 15th and 16th times on the show as Donald Trump, first in the show’s cold open and then pulling double duty in a separate sketch as both the president and TV show host Bill O’Reilly.
In the first bit, Baldwin skewers working-class white supporters of President Trump with a visit to Kentucky’s Boone County. “I just wanted to spend 20 minutes today with my people, folks who don’t whisper, ‘Oh God, what’s happening?’ right after I leave the room,” said Baldwin’s Trump.
While all he wants to talk about is Syria, the voters Alec Baldwin as Bill O’Reilly. care more about domestic policy, like the fact that many of them are losing their jobs, healthcare and homes. “I love coal,” Baldwin’s Trump tells a man who recently lost his mining job. “In Trump’s America, all men work in two places: coal mines and Goldman Sachs.”
—Los Angeles Times