{"id":8018,"date":"2016-09-29T02:52:55","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T20:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/alec-baldwin-to-play-donald-trump-on-saturday-night-live\/"},"modified":"2016-09-29T08:33:17","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T02:33:17","slug":"alec-baldwin-to-play-donald-trump-on-saturday-night-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/alec-baldwin-to-play-donald-trump-on-saturday-night-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Alec Baldwin to play Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Saturday Night Live has chosen Hollywood star Alec Baldwin to impersonate US presidential candidate Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p> American television network NBC announced the 30 Rock actor would portray Trump in the new series of the long-running comedy sketch show.<\/p>\n<p><figure><img src=\"http:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/1422021936-0a0ac3e1622d2c4146b1512032ec0f65-600x337.jpg\"\/><figcaption>Alec Baldwin (Evan Agostini\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p> Alec, who has hosted SNL a record 16 times, will debut his performance as the Republican candidate when the show returns this weekend.<\/p>\n<p> He will go head-to-head with SNL cast member Kate McKinnon, who will play Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton, in a skit on this week\u2019s presidential debate.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The night we\u00e2\u0080\u0099ve all been waiting for. #SNLPremiere pic.twitter.com\/WiY1jLpop5<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Saturday Night Live (@nbcsnl) September 28, 2016<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Trump has previously been portrayed on SNL by Darrell Hammond and Taran Killam.<\/p>\n<p> The show has gone over the heads of its cast in the past when it chose Larry David to play former presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders.<\/p>\n<p> Saturday\u2019s premiere will feature actress Margot Robbie as guest host, with musical guest The Weeknd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday Night Live has chosen Hollywood star Alec Baldwin to impersonate US presidential candidate Donald Trump. American television network NBC announced the 30 Rock actor would portray Trump in the new series of the long-running comedy sketch show. Alec Baldwin (Evan Agostini\/AP) Alec, who has hosted SNL a record 16 times, will debut his performance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8019,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8018"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}