Alec Baldwin tweets masked selfie in full Donald Trump makeup for Saturday Night Live… as show scrambles to cover president’s COVID-19 diagnosis
- Alec Baldwin posted a selfie of himself in costume and makeup as U.S. President Donald Trump for Saturday Night Live’s season premiere this weekend
- The 62-year-old actor has drawn acclaim for playing Trump on the NBC iconic sketch show – even earning Emmy nominations
- His latest turn in the role comes just two days after the president announced that he and First Lady Melania Trump have been diagnosed with COVID-19
- The president and first lady tested positive for the virus after discovering that his senior counselor Hope Hicks had contracted the illness
Alec Baldwin posted a selfie of himself in costume and makeup as U.S. President Donald Trump for Saturday Night Live’s season premiere this weekend.
The 62-year-old actor has drawn acclaim for playing Trump on the NBC iconic sketch show – even earning Emmy nominations.
His latest appearance in the role comes just two days after the president announced that he and First Lady Melania Trump have been diagnosed with COVID-19.
Incoming: Alec Baldwin tweeted a selfie of himself in costume and makeup as U.S. President Donald Trump for Saturday Night Live this weekend
‘Tonight at 11:30 eastern,’ he wrote in the caption of his selfie.
The coronavirus lockdowns began while the show was still in the midst of its 44th season, which had to pivot to virtual performances.
However for the latest season the cast are returning to the studio in New York City to work together again with a limited studio audience.
The president and first lady tested positive for the virus after discovering that his senior counselor Hope Hicks had contracted the illness.
Saturday’s premiere episode will air just hours after Trump delivered a taped address to his Twitter followers updating them on his condition.
He shared that he is ‘starting to feel good’ and called his treatments, which include the Ebola drug remdesivir, ‘miracles from God.’
Trump joked: ‘Melania is really handling it very nicely. As you’ve probably read, she’s slightly younger than me, just a little tiny bit.’
Melania, who is the president’s third wife and the mother of his fifth child, is 50 years old which makes her 24 years his junior.
The president was transferred to Walter Reed hospital Friday out of what the White House referred to as ‘an abundance of caution.’
However he is said to have repeatedly asked his aides if he was going to die, with a Vanity Fair reporter claiming he asked: ‘Am I going out like Stan Chera?’
Stan Chera was a longtime friend and supporter of the president and succumbed to the virus this April at the age of 77.