# Baldwin back as Trump in SNL **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 20, 2016, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baldwin-back-as-trump-in-snl/772599 "2016-11-20T21:59:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2016, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baldwin-back-as-trump-in-snl/772599/21 "2016-12-06T01:49:46Z")
Well now we know what it’ll take to get Baldwin to stop playing Trump; Donald just has to [release](https://www.buzzfeed.com/salvadorhernandez/snl-spoofs-donald-trump-retweeting-weird-people-just-like-th?utm_term=.kxG8PY3qxp#.hnWwN9QvLl) his tax returns. 😃 If SNL really wants to mess with Trump they move the sketch from the cold open to later in the show so he has to sit threw more the show. Or randomly do more than once sketch so Trump forces himself to watch the entire show instead of tuning out once the sketch is over. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2016, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baldwin-back-as-trump-in-snl/772599/22 "2016-12-06T02:24:58Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > Well now we know what it’ll take to get Baldwin to stop playing Trump; Donald just has to [release](https://www.buzzfeed.com/salvadorhernandez/snl-spoofs-donald-trump-retweeting-weird-people-just-like-th?utm_term=.kxG8PY3qxp#.hnWwN9QvLl) his tax returns. 😃 If SNL really wants to mess with Trump they move the sketch from the cold open to later in the show so he has to sit threw more the show. Or randomly do more than once sketch so Trump forces himself to watch the entire show instead of tuning out once the sketch is over. Excellent suggestions! Tweet them to SNL. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2016, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baldwin-back-as-trump-in-snl/772599/23 "2016-12-11T05:49:33Z")
And tonight SNL did exactly what I was suggesting; albeit with John Cena playing Trump’s mental image of himself. Good sketch. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2017, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baldwin-back-as-trump-in-snl/772599/24 "2017-01-15T05:24:31Z")
I’m surprised at the number of urine jokes they managed to fit into tonight’s riff on Trump’s press conference. I can’t wait for their take on Trump’s inauguration next week. Granted that’s assuming it takes more than 36 hours to have Baldwin & SNL’s writing staff interned in a concentration camp or start a nuclear war. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2017, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baldwin-back-as-trump-in-snl/772599/25 "2017-01-15T13:13:47Z")
alphaboi867 wrote: "Granted that’s assuming it takes more than 36 hours to have Baldwin & SNL’s writing staff interned in a concentration camp or start a nuclear war. " Alec Baldwin=The canary in the coal mine of liberty. ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baldwin-back-as-trump-in-snl/772599/26 "2017-01-16T00:38:39Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > I’m surprised at the number of urine jokes they managed to fit into tonight’s riff on Trump’s press conference. I can’t wait for their take on Trump’s inauguration next week. Granted that’s assuming it takes more than 36 hours to have Baldwin & SNL’s writing staff interned in a concentration camp or start a nuclear war. A couple of hours ago Donald tweeted: > [@](#): > > Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump > .@NBCNews is bad but Saturday Night Live is the worst of NBC. Not funny, cast is terrible, always a complete hit job. Really bad television! ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baldwin-back-as-trump-in-snl/772599/27 "2017-01-16T00:57:06Z")
> [@standingwave](#): > > A couple of hours ago Donald tweeted: Quote: Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump .@NBCNews is bad but Saturday Night Live is the worst of NBC. Not funny, cast is terrible, always a complete hit job. Really bad television! * * * Urinalysis is correct. Unless you blow a burning forest fire of smoke up The Donald’s flabby orange ass, he pisses all over everything… ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baldwin-back-as-trump-in-snl/772599/28 "2017-01-16T01:09:18Z")
> [@Baal\_Houtham](#): > > One of my many fears is that Trump Chief-E is immune to satire. His voters went for a man with complete disrespect for facts. His opponents completely understand that, but it’s never going to be funny to them, because… it stopped being funny on November 8, 2016. > > In the words of Mad Magazine, “That movie is already a satire.” And yet there was humor and satire targeted at Hitler during WWII. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baldwin-back-as-trump-in-snl/772599/29 "2017-01-16T01:13:55Z")
So that’s going to be two in a row that escape proper satire? Obama because there was kinda nothing to poke fun at, and what there was wasn’t really satire material. (Worst I ever heard was 30 Rock, (paraphrased) “Vote for Obama again because…well…stuff happened and…”) And now Trump because how can you satirize satire??? That said, when you make the trappings absurd, it helps. Shirtless Putin, Kellyanne…etc… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baldwin-back-as-trump-in-snl/772599.md?page=1)