Posted on 09/30/2016 7:27:39 PM PDT by drewh
With just 39 days to go in the 2016 presidential race, there is seemingly little that cable news networks and pro-Democrat media “watchdogs” can do to stop the momentum of Donald Trump’s campaign. Media outlets and “fact checkers” have pored over every nook and cranny of Trump’s businesses and campaign since last July; they’ve waited with bated breath for Trump to say something unforgivable at a rally or a fundraiser.
But seemingly none of it has worked. While the race remains nail-bitingly close in several battleground states, Friday’s Los Angeles Times tracking poll has Trump up six points on Clinton nationally, well outside the poll’s margin of error.
Fast forward to Wednesday, when Saturday Night Live announced that frequent guest-host Alec Baldwin, fresh off of a stint hosting ABC’s reboot of Match Game, would play the role of Trump throughout the entirety of the show’s upcoming 42nd season.
Baldwin — who has guested on the program a record 16 times — is no stranger to the show’s political sketches. He appeared in a 2008 skit alongside Tina Fey, who played former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in perhaps the show’s most influential depiction of a politician ever.
In fact, it was Fey herself who suggested Baldwin for the Trump role to SNL producer Lorne Michaels earlier this summer, Michaels told the Hollywood Reporter in an interview this week.
“We were talking about who should do it,” Michaels told THR. “And [Fey] said, ‘Well, the person that should really play it is Alec.’ And I went, ‘Yeah!’
NBC released a teaser trailer for its October 1 season premiere along with the announcement of Baldwin’s casting on Wednesday. The promo hypes a matchup between Baldwin’s Trump and Kate McKinnon’s Clinton in what will almost surely be a send-up of Monday night’s presidential debate.
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Stephen Baldwin: The Jesus Freak of Hollywood
CBN.com Scott Ross [reporting]: Stephen Baldwin had some pretty big shoes to fill following in the steps of brothers Alec, Daniel and Billy Baldwin, but he’s done it his way. And his way makes for an entertaining interview.
Ross: Did you buy into the lifestyle too?
Stephen Baldwin: Oh yeah. Of course, you can’t be 21, 22, 23 living in New York City, Alec Baldwin’s little brother, making a couple 100,000 a year, and not get sucked into the fast lane.
Ross [reporting]: It took a woman on a bus to slow this fast-moving guy down — at least a little bit.
Baldwin: One day, I saw this chick. She was an absolute delight. We have been together ever since that day.
Ross [reporting]: Stephen and Kenya settled into married life, and soon they were expecting their first child. Kenya explained to Stephen that it’s customary in Brazil to hire a nanny when a baby is on the way. Since Kenya is Brazilian, that’s the way it played out.
Baldwin: So, we hired this lady from Brazil named Augusta, and the whole first week she’s working for us she’s singing in Portuguese, which she only spoke that language with my wife. She’s singing about Jesus, and my wife comes to me in a few days and asks me, “Do you hear what she’s singing about? She’s singing about Jesus.” My wife, after a few more days, approaches her. “I noticed your singing, and I’m wondering why every song is about Jesus?” Augusta had this very interesting reaction. She burst out laughing. My wife said, “What’s so funny?” She said, “Quite frankly, I think it’s a little bit funny that you think I’m here to clean your house.”
Ross: Isn’t this why you hired her?
Baldwin: She goes on to tell my wife that, before she had accepted the job, she prayed with her pastor and some church members in Brazil. She was told through a prophetic word that, if she went to live with the Baldwins, then one day Kenya and Stephen would come to faith in Jesus Christ and be involved in ministry.
Ross: She told all this to your wife?
Baldwin: I haven’t told this part of the story a lot. She had a dream and saw me, saw my wife and saw my first daughter Aliya.
Ross: Now, how did you guys handle hearing this little bit of information?
Baldwin: Didn’t faze me for a second.
Ross: Why didn’t it faze you? Did you have any spiritual background at all?
Baldwin: Sure. Raised Roman Catholic up until 11 or 12, didn’t stick. Went out into the world and did my own thing. But you have to understand at the time, I was functioning in Hollywood. All kinds of different things, perspectives, lifestyles, perceptions, [and] to me this was just okay. This is the new kooky housekeeper. OK, what’s next? What do we do now? How about a reality show?
Ross [reporting]: Reality show? Life at the Baldwins’ was better than that! Kenya was the first to dive into the Bible. She spent many hours with Augusta talking about Jesus. One night, Kenya went with Augusta to a Brazilian church in New York City.
Baldwin: She says, “Honey, sit down. I’ve got to talk to you. I’ve accepted Jesus Christ tonight as my Lord and Savior. I’ve been baptized in water. I need you to know that, from now on, what I need to do each day to the best of my ability is to become the most obedient servant to Jesus Christ that I can. Now, I need that to be clear, and I need you to understand. I don’t know what you’re going to do, but that’s what I’m going to do.” Then I watched her go through this radically beautiful metamorphosis. It was amazing.
Ross: Did she start jamming Jesus down your throat?
Baldwin: No. No. Not at all. She went into a prayer and Bible study regiment unlike anything I’d ever seen before. Up in the morning, on her knees face on the ground for an hour, without flinching, up off her knees into the bed with the Bible at least 30 to 45 minutes, every morning, every night, for one year.
Ross [reporting]: While Kenya was seeking God and learning more about Him, Stephen was beginning to ask questions, especially after September 11th.
The BaldwinsBaldwin: September 11th kind of freaked me out. I said, “Hey, what’s this all about? My wife’s a Jesus freak. Maybe it’s time I begin thinking about this faith thing.” Pursued it, became born again, accepted the Lord, baptized in water.
Ross: You?
Baldwin: Within one month after 9/11.
Ross: [It] affected you that way and her prayers?
Baldwin: All of it, all of it, but here’s the thing… After all that, she’s come to faith, and I’ve come to faith. I don’t realize that this has completed the first half of the prophecy. I don’t even thing about that. I’m too busy running around doing my thing.
Ross [reporting]: Skateboarding was his thing. So, Stephen got involved with these extreme athletes and started sharing the gospel to young people across the country. “Livin’ It” was born. But, call it a ministry? Stephen didn’t think so.
Baldwin: Praise the Lord, but do me a favor, don’t ever say Stephen Baldwin and ministry in the same sentence. I make movies, and in Hollywood, that’s career suicide.
Ross [reporting]: That’s what he thought then, but a chance acquaintance was there to correct Stephen’s thinking.
Baldwin: I’ll never forget this. He said, “You better think about what’s going on, because if you go down this road, then what is going on is you are involved in a ministry.” I’ll never forget that moment. What just came out of that guy’s mouth — and he was relatively a stranger in my life — completes the second half of a prophecy.
Ross [reporting]: The best script writer in Hollywood couldn’t have written a story as masterful as the one God wrote for Stephen Baldwin. As for Stephen, the youngest of the Baldwin brood, is keeping everyone on their toes.
Baldwin: Stephen Baldwin believes that now we’re in a particular time in the world’s history where it is time that people stand up for Jesus. That people get more aggressive and radical how they communicate with our culture about Jesus. My point is simply this: I believe I have a calling. Do you know what that calling is? To stand up in a new and hard core, radical way for the Lord. In the process, if I insult a couple of people, if I offend a couple of people, and if I got to shake it up a little bit, as long as it is led by the Holy Spirit, amen.
That’s one TV nightmare I never watch.
Hammond, like the Musical Organ.
He was remarkable. (Luckily) Alec is no where near as effective.
Good Lord....
The American left is hopeless.
I quit them a long time ago.
1977 for me.
The thing that makes me so upset. Sarah never said that... the people believed it because Tina Fey did a very good impression of Sarah.
Yes! I did open a Twitter account to follow Trump but I just don’t think to check it very often.
That may change! LOL!
Agree.
I don’t think she can do anything or say anything that hasn’t already been done or said.
I doubt there had ever been another candidate who withstood so many hundreds of millions of dollars of character assassination - nor the traitorous knifing from people in his own party.
There isn’t much left to throw at him.
This man has grit, drive and the thickest skin I’ve ever needed.
He will need all these qualities as he runs the gauntlet of the final 39 days - and during his first four years. Change will provoke resistance. He can take it. He’s proven it time and time again.
Let’s hope Alec Baldwin will follow in the steps of his brother Stephen.
That would be wonderful!
Hopefully, Stephen is praying for him.
This is the same Alec Baldwin that brutally berated his daughter on a voicemail?
Sure, he will credibly make fun of Trump.
The late Jan Hooks did a good Hillary, much better than the current weak efforts.
Might as well throw in the toilet as a last ditch effort ... got His Arrogance, Moo, Slow Joe, Fauxahontas, Slick Willy, The Joker and now an ass.
For the funniest trump ad yet this summer, check out the parody of “Misery”, the Stephen King movie. It’s only a minute or so long, but you WILL laugh your head off. Please share with friends.
https://youtu.be/BFjISalpm1k
I suppose playing Trump for the whole forty second season is a subtle admission that Donald is going to be in the news that long. Alec must have always wanted to play a president :-)
what is SNL? Do they have viewership of 3% of our population? Maybe 2% . do the leftists think we are stupid embiciles led to slaughter by some worthless tv show watched by mindless sheeple? ? GO TRUMP!!
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