OPINION:
Poor, poor Alec Baldwin.
Scarcely had the pampered Hollywood pet placed high on Saturday Night Live’s star cast with his President Donald Trump impressions, and he’s already leaving the stage. Why?
Basically, he can’t take it any more. It’s not clear exactly what he can’t take — but whatever it is, by God, it’s un-takeable.
“His policies aside, which you can hate, I thought he would have just relaxed,” Baldwin said, in widely reported remarks about Trump. “The maliciousness of this White House has people worried, which is why I’m not going to do it much longer, the impersonation. I don’t know how much more people can take it.”
OK — but what does that mean?
Is Baldwin trying to say a malicious White House is targeting him, so in fear, he’s quitting the gig? That’s doubtful. Is he trying to suggest malicious Trump supporters are threatening or otherwise intimidating him so that he’s frightened for his safety? Again, doubt it.
Or is he trying to say that it’s the other way around — that his supporters, his Hollywood friends and fans aren’t enamored with his Trump impressions and to please them, he’s quitting?
One doesn’t really know.
“Trump just overwhelmingly lacks any kind of sportsmanship,” Baldwin went on. “He remains bitter and angry. And you just want to look at him and go, ’You won!’”
And therein lays a clue.
Perhaps Baldwin’s real dissatisfaction is the fact Trump not only won the White House, but hasn’t yet left.
There Trump sits, still in the White House — despite all the rallies, protests, street violence, college campus uprisings and other such mayhem fabricated by the left as a means of taking him out from his presidential position.
After all, Baldwin’s been mocking Trump on Saturday Night Live since October. The fact that it’s March and he’s still president must be a galling, shame-faced reminder of how ridiculous he, along with his fellow left-leaning cohorts, really were to think they could toss Trump by the simple power of their outraged outbursts. Sorry about the career dent, Alec. Now don’t let the door hit you on your way out.
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