Here’s Who Should Play Trump on ‘SNL’ Next
President-elect Donald Trump is not the only midtown Manhattan resident encountering problems with his transition game this week. So too is Saturday Night Live, which failed to consider the possibility of the erstwhile star of NBC’s The Apprentice becoming the 45th president.
Who will SNL’s longtime producer, Lorne Michaels, install to impersonate the most bombastic and histrionic commander-in-chief in the show’s, if not the nation’s, history? And will Jared Kushner cast influence on who becomes Michaels’s appointee?
Thus far, in the late-night NBC show’s 42nd season, Alec Baldwin has portrayed the Donald. A veteran film actor who has hosted 16 times, more than anyone else, Baldwin was a natural to play Trump in a (a show set in the very edifice occupies). A favorite of Michaels and the show’s writers and cast, Baldwin was a welcome presence in the hallways around Studio 8-H. Everyone knew it was a limited run, though; no one prepared for the exigency of a Hillary Clinton defeat. “I’m trying to shed the Donald Trump cloak,” Baldwin said in a radio interview in New York earlier this week.
