Veteran comic Alec Baldwin skewered President Donald Trump once again with his now-iconic Saturday Night Live impression. This time he took aim at Trump's declaration of a national emergency on Friday.
Trump made the announcement from the Rose Garden during a lengthy press conference in which he made numerous factual errors.
"I'm here to declare a very urgent, important national emergency," Baldwin said Saturday while in the guise of the president. "This is a big one so I don't want to waste any time. That's why first I would like to blow my own horn a little bit. I had a great health exam. I'm still standing 6 foot 7, 185 pounds, shredded."
The 30 Rock actor was poking fun at Trump's most recent physical exam, the results of which were released February 8. The president's doctor said he was in "very good health overall," but had slipped into the obese category, with a height of 6 feet 3 inches and a weight of 243 pounds.
"Let's cut to the chase, folks." Baldwin continued. "We need wall. Okay? We have a tremendous amount of drugs flowing into this country from the southern border or the 'brown line' as many people have asked me not to call it. That's why we need wall. Because wall works. Wall makes safe."
A move that's faced criticism from liberal and conservative voices alike, commentators have questioned whether Trump's national emergency will make it through the lawsuits already piling in. On Friday, Washington, D.C. advocacy groups filed lawsuits in response to the declaration, The Washington Post reported.
Baldwin teased the potential progress of the declaration, saying: "So I'm gonna sign these papers for emergency, and then I'll immediately be sued and the ruling will not go in my favor and then I'll end up in the Supreme Court. And then I'll call my buddy [Brett] Kavanaugh and I'll say it's time to repay the Donny. And he'll say 'new phone, who dis?'"
"And then the Mueller report will be released, crumbling my house of cards, and I can just plead insanity and do a few months in the puzzle factory. And my personal hell of being president will finally be over," Baldwin continued.
Trump himself has blasted Baldwin's performance as a "terrible impersonation" that saved the actor's "dying mediocre career." The comments were made in response to an interview in which Baldwin described playing Trump as "agony."
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