--- title: Saturday Night Live: Alec Baldwin Donald Trump Impression description: Alex Baldwin will return to impersonate the now President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live this week canonical: https://time.com/4576832/alec-baldwin-donald-trump/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-18T19:22:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:38:50.026Z og:title: Alec Baldwin Is Returning as Donald Trump on the Next 'SNL' og:description: Back at it again with "that guy with the weird hair" og:url: https://time.com/4576832/alec-baldwin-donald-trump/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Alec Baldwin Is Returning as Donald Trump on the Next 'SNL' twitter:description: Back at it again with "that guy with the weird hair" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Alec Baldwin Is Returning as Donald Trump on the Next _Saturday Night Live_ by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Nov 18, 2016 7:22 PM UTC by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Nov 18, 2016 7:22 PM UTC Alec Baldwin hasn’t mothballed that Donald Trump wig just yet. The _30 Rock_ actor will return to impersonate the now President-elect [this Saturday](http://time.com/4569026/saturday-night-live-snl-donald-trump-review/), [_Variety_](http://variety.com/2016/scene/vpage/alec-baldwin-donald-trump-snl-lorne-michaels-1201921897/) reports. Baldwin, who presented a silly, finger-pointing caricature of the Republican nominee during sketches that tackled [the presidential debates](http://time.com/4542803/saturday-night-live-presidential-debate-3-analysis/) and his public [apology](http://time.com/4523755/donald-trump-leaked-tape-impact/) for a leaked tape featuring his lewd language toward women, says he’ll continue this character “every now and then.” After the surprising election results, Baldwin’s squinting “Trump face” was notably absent from the latest [_Saturday Night Live_](http://time.com/4569026/saturday-night-live-snl-donald-trump-review/) episode. Instead, the episode opened with [Kate McKinnon’s sobering version](http://time.com/4569018/saturday-night-live-hillary-clinton-kate-mckinnon-hallelujah/) of the late Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujiah,” in character as Hillary Clinton without her opponent. Addressing this, Baldwin explained he didn’t perform because he was unavailable. “What’s interesting is when people said to me, ‘You didn’t do it after the election,’” Baldwin told _Variety_. “I’m not available every Saturday night of my life, you know what I mean? We had other things to do.” Baldwin will be at it again this Saturday with Kristen Wiig, who will host. \[[_Variety_](http://variety.com/2016/scene/vpage/alec-baldwin-donald-trump-snl-lorne-michaels-1201921897/)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4576832/alec-baldwin-donald-trump/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4576832/alec-baldwin-donald-trump/"},"headline":"Alec Baldwin Is Returning as Donald Trump on the Next Saturday Night Live","datePublished":"2016-11-18T19:22:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:38:50.026Z","description":"Back at it again with SNL's \"guy with the weird hair\"","url":"https://time.com/4576832/alec-baldwin-donald-trump/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Saturday Night Live"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4576832/alec-baldwin-donald-trump/","name":"Alec Baldwin Is Returning as Donald Trump on the Next Saturday Night Live"}}]}] ```