The iconic sketch show Saturday Night Live once again brought on legendary actor Alec Baldwin to lampoon the President this week.
Baldwin, whose impression of Donald trump has scored massive broadcast success, this time was invited to take on Trump’s Tuesday campaign rally in Phoenix, Arizona.
After a few cursory quips about this weeks solar eclipse and Vice President Mike Pence running for President in 2020, Baldwin’s humorous monologue steered straight into Trump’s controversial statements on Charlottesville, slamming him for his response to the ‘Unite the Right’ rally held in Virginia earlier this month.
Legendary actor Alec Baldwin lampoons President Trump following a recent really in Phoenix, Arizona
Baldwin slams the President for his response to the deadly violence at Charlottesville, Virginia earlier this month
‘First I want want to talk about Charlottesville. There was a tragic victim that came out of Charlottesville… me,’ Baldwin’s Trump begins.
‘Folks the media has treated me so unfairly by reporting my entire remarks, even the bad ones, so I wanted to set the record straight about exactly what I said and I have the transcript here.’
Reading from a piece of paper in his hand, Baldwin takes a comedic pause and blurts: ‘I moved on her like a bitch but I couldn’t there…oh no, that’s not it.’
The line is in reference to off the cuff salacious remarks Trump made years back that surfaced during the presidential campaign.
Baldwin continues: ‘Here we go… We had a group on one side that is very bad, neo-Nazis, and you had a group on the other side – and then I didn’t say a single after that, I just stopped.
Baldwin’s Trump also touched on some controversial the President mentioned in his speech including former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio
The sketch end with Baldwin asking Steve Bannon, satirized as the Grim Reper, to join him on stage
In fact, the President said at Trump Tower in Manhattan two days after the violence in Charlottesville that ‘you had a group on the other side that was also very violent, and nobody wants to say that, but I’ll say it right now,’ referring to anti-Nazi protesters demonstrating against white supremacists at the rally.
SNL writers were also provided material thanks to a Trump supporter featured prominently at the Phoenix rally holding a sign that read ‘Blacks for Trump,’ played by Kenan Thompson.
Baldwin then moved onto another controversial topic which Trump touched on at the rally.
‘I know you folks are worried about your great Sheriff Joe, who was recently convicted for arresting people and throwing them in jail merely because they looked Latino…How is that a crime.’
Former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio was found guilty of criminal contempt on July 31 following nearly a decade-long case in which the ex-lawman was found to have racially discriminated against Latinos in direct violation of federal law.
The sketch closes out with Baldwin’s Trump inviting Steve Bannon, satirized as the Grime Reaper, on stage to stand beside him.
After Baldwin intones, ‘Steve, we love you,’ the reaper responds with a ominous ‘I’m going to crush you.’
Bannon, Trump’s former chief political strategist, was ousted earlier this month following a tumultuous seven months at the White House.
Tuesday’s rally for the Trump faithful was viewed by most media observers as 70 minutes of the President airing a litany of grievances where attacked everything from the mainstream ‘fake news’ media to the state’s two Republican lawmakers.