Alec Baldwin Explains Why 'SNL' Kept Debate Opener Following Trump's COVID-19 Diagnosis

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Alec Baldwin explains why SNL kept debate opener following Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis

"If there was ever the suggestion that Trump was truly, gravely ill, and people said, 'Trump is really in trouble,' then I would bet you everything I have that we wouldn't even get near that, in terms of content of the show," the show's go-to presidential impersonator said.'s decision to feature Trump's debate performance as part of its Season 46 opener, despite the president's Friday night announcement that he had tested positive for COVID-19.

"We only have the words of the White House itself and the people who work there themselves to go on, and all of them have all been saying he isn’t in any danger," Baldwin said."We only have their word to go by. And if their word was that he was in serious trouble, then we probably wouldn't have done it."

Baldwin took another and more direct shot at Trump's responses to COVID-19 later in the sketch, using one of Trump's preferred nicknames for the coronavirus:"The China Virus has been very mean to me by being a hoax, and that statement will not come back to haunt me later this week."host went on to defend the decision to keep the debate sketch because it was"topical" and avoided featuring or mentioning the president's hospitalization.

 

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HA! I thought Baldwin was an actor, I didn’t know he was THE decision maker at SNL.

ABFalecbaldwin smh. Such a sad sad grown ass man child.

All so he could get paid. He only cares about Money

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