Alec Baldwin tweets link to "Make SNL Great Again and Get Rid of Alec Baldwin's Trump" article

The Daily Beast

It's not clear what kind of message Baldwin was sending in tweeting The Daily Beast's article on Sunday calling out Saturday Night Live for sticking with his Trump impression in a "shameless pursuit of ratings." Baldwin's Trump only appeared on one-third of SNL episodes in Season 44, or seven out of 21. In The Daily Beast, Marlow Stern writes that Baldwin's impression "fails on both a technical and conceptual level, capturing neither Trump’s weirdo mannerisms (Darrell Hammond nailed it) nor his damaged-guy essence (Taran Killam came close). It’s a defanged caricature, perhaps owing to Lorne Michaels’ decades-long deferential relationship to the real-life Trump—a man he once called 'a moderate' candidate, and who directed Killam to not 'vilify' him and “find a way in that makes him likable. If that weren’t enough, the sketch show’s Trump skits have devolved into a form of comedy stenography, its orange antagonist regurgitating his looniest boasts near-verbatim—proclamations that have already been atomized by late-night comedy hosts when Saturday rolls around."