Alec Baldwin just majorly dissed President Trump
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Talk about rubbing salt in a wound.
Early on in the 2017 Emmy Awards, Stephen Colbert pointed out that President Trump had never won an Emmy for “The Apprentice.’’ So as Alec Baldwin took the stage Sunday night to accept an award for his impersonation of Trump on “Saturday Night Live,’’ he had a message for the president.
“I suppose I should say at long last, Mr. President, here is your Emmy,’’ Baldwin said, as the audience laughed and clapped.
Baldwin also insinuated that playing Trump on TV didn’t exactly up the romance at his house. After having three kids in three years with his wife Hilaria, he said that perhaps putting on that Trump wig was good birth control.
After thanking a long list of people, Baldwin also had a message for entertainers.
“When you die, you don’t remember a bill that Congress passed, or a decision the Supreme Court made, or an address made by the president,’’ Baldwin said. “You remember a song, a line from a movie, a play, a book, a painting, a poem. What we do is important. Don’t stop doing what you’re doing. The audience is counting on you.’’
This was the second time in the awards show that Trump was the butt of a joke about his lack of Emmys.
During his monologue, Colbert showed a clip from a Trump/Hillary Clinton presidential debate where she mentioned how Trump was upset he never won. “Should’ve gotten it,’’ Trump then said.
“But he didn’t, because unlike the presidency, Emmys go to the winner of the popular vote,’’ Colbert quipped right after, eliciting applause and cheers from the audience.
After his win, Baldwin was asked off-stage by a reporter what his reaction was to former White House press secretary Sean Spicer making a cameo.
Baldwin said he appreciated Spicer’s sense of humor.
“Spicer obviously was compelled to do certain things that we might not have respected, that we might not have admired, that we might have been super critical of, in order to do his job,’’ Baldwin said. “But I’ve done some jobs that are things you shouldn’t admire or respect me for either. So he and I have that in common, I suppose.’’
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