Politics

Alec Baldwin Thinks His Trump Impersonation Got Biden Elected, Tells America “You’re Welcome”

The delusion is, ironically, quite Trumpian.

by Jared Richards  9 November 2020
Alec Baldwin credits himself with Trump losing 2020 election

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With Donald Trump losing the US election, we can also say goodbye to another orange annoyance: Alec Baldwin’s SNL impersonation. Baldwin signed off this Saturday with a final sketch — a somber piano rendition of campaign rally favourite ‘Macho Man’, naturally — and a sign that caught viewers off guard.

As the episode came to an end, the cast stood behind host Dave Chapelle before The Foo Fighters performed their new single, ‘Shame Shame’. While Maya Rudolf held a sign wishing her daughter a happy birthday, Baldwin held up one telling America “you’re welcome”, seemingly taking responsibility for Joe Biden’s election win.

While clearly tongue-in-cheek, it’s also about as brazen a claim as Trump himself would make, prompting people to point out that perhaps his ‘satire’ on a show that Trump himself hosted back in 2015 didn’t make that much of an impact.

Baldwin has officially retired his impersonation, writing in a Tweet on Saturday, “I don’t believe I’ve ever been this overjoyed to lose a job before!”.

Meanwhile, Rudolf, who impersonates Kamala Harris, and Jim Carrey, who plays Joe Biden, both have a few more years of SNL locked in — for better or for worse, depending on who you ask.

Over the weekend, Carrey merged together two roles, bringing back his Ace Ventura voice to call Trump a ‘loser’ while in character as Biden.

Watch that and Baldwin’s take on Trump’s ‘concession speech’ below, where the latter chants both ‘stop the votes’ and  ‘count the votes’, and shows the overwhelming red wave on a US map, before learning it’s actually tracing the spread of COVID-19 across the country.