Alec Baldwin says he would ‘absolutely win’ against Trump in 2020 election
The actor has drawn the president's ire with a 'Saturday Night Live' impersonation
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Your support makes all the difference.Actor Alec Baldwin said he would “absolutely win” if he ran for president against Donald Trump.
“Hands down, I would win. It would be the funniest, most exciting, most crazy campaign”, Mr Baldwin said during an appearance on Howard Stern’s radio show.
Mr Baldwin has made no secret of his disdain for the president, regularly assailing Mr Trump and mocking the president with his impersonation on Saturday Night Live.
“I could go out on the street, stand on any corner and tap 10 people on the shoulder. And all 10 of them, in all likelihood, would be more qualified - ethically, morally, intellectually and spiritually - than Trump”, Mr Baldwin said in an interview earlier this year, adding that “We have to get rid of him”.
The president has returned fire, reserving a good chunk of his criticism for Mr Baldwin’s role portraying him. Mr Trump has called watching the character “agony” and said it “stinks” while dismissing Saturday Night Live, a longrunning sketch comedy show, as “boring and unfunny”.
“Just tried watching Saturday Night Live - unwatchable! Totally biased, not funny and the Baldwin impersonation just can't get any worse”, Mr Trump said on Twitter last year.
There is no indication that Mr Baldwin has concrete plans to run for office, but he asserted that he could be successful.
“I'd love to run for that kind of position to have things just be very common sense”, Mr Baldwin said. “There's so many things this country needs to do that are so obvious”.
He said last year that he was interested in running for office but that it would not be “practical”.
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