--- title: Alec Baldwin Trolls Donald Trump With Russian Hat description: Alec Baldwin posted a photo wearing a hat with the Trump campaign slogan "Make America Great Again," but in Russian canonical: https://time.com/4627658/alec-baldwin-donald-trump-snl-make-america-great-again-russian-hat/ author: Madeline Farber article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-08T14:41:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T02:36:14.234Z article:section: Politics og:title: Alec Baldwin Trolls Donald Trump Again — but This Time in Russian og:description: With a take on Trump's iconic red hats og:url: https://time.com/4627658/alec-baldwin-donald-trump-snl-make-america-great-again-russian-hat/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc2c7d720f57214ca/6988b4affb4eacca0b890535/alec-baldwin-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Saturday Night Live - Season 42 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Alec Baldwin Trolls Donald Trump Again — but This Time in Russian twitter:description: With a take on Trump's iconic red hats twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc2c7d720f57214ca/6988b4affb4eacca0b890535/alec-baldwin-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Alec Baldwin Trolls Donald Trump Again — but This Time in Russian by [Madeline Farber](https://time.com/author/madeline-farber/) ## Madeline Farber Jan 8, 2017 2:41 PM UTC  Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump during the "Donald Trump Prepares Cold Open" sketch on Nov. 19, 2016 Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump during the "Donald Trump Prepares Cold Open" sketch on Nov. 19, 2016NBC/NBCU Photo Bank/Getty Images by [Madeline Farber](https://time.com/author/madeline-farber/) ## Madeline Farber Jan 8, 2017 2:41 PM UTC Alec Baldwin doesn’t need to be on stage during _Saturday Night Live_ to make fun of Donald Trump. On Saturday, Baldwin posted a photo to his Instagram account wearing a red hat with the Trump campaign slogan “Make America Great Again,” written in Cyrillic, the Russian alphabet. The first word means “Make,” the second is “America,” in Russian, the third word is “Fantastic” or “Great” and the last word is “Again,” [according to CNN](http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/08/entertainment/alec-baldwin-russian-hat/), but the phrase on the cap contains improper grammar. Baldwin also most likely used Google Translate to come up with the phrase, CNN contributor Jill Dougherty first told the network. “In fact, we just Google-translated it, and it’s translated exactly like on the cap,” Dougherty said. The photo comes after the Office of the Director of National Intelligence [released a report ](http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/06/us/politics/russia-hack-report.html)on Friday that Russian President Valdimir Putin likely led an effort to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4627658/alec-baldwin-donald-trump-snl-make-america-great-again-russian-hat/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4627658/alec-baldwin-donald-trump-snl-make-america-great-again-russian-hat/"},"headline":"Alec Baldwin Trolls Donald Trump Again — but This Time in Russian","datePublished":"2017-01-08T14:41:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T02:36:14.234Z","description":"With a take on Trump's iconic red hats","url":"https://time.com/4627658/alec-baldwin-donald-trump-snl-make-america-great-again-russian-hat/","keywords":["Donald Trump","Alec Baldwin","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc2c7d720f57214ca/6988b4affb4eacca0b890535/alec-baldwin-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Madeline Farber","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/madeline-farber/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc2c7d720f57214ca/6988b4affb4eacca0b890535/alec-baldwin-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Saturday Night Live - Season 42","caption":"Saturday Night Live - Season 42","creditText":"NBC/NBCU Photo Bank/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"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":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4627658/alec-baldwin-donald-trump-snl-make-america-great-again-russian-hat/","name":"Alec Baldwin Trolls Donald Trump Again — but This Time in Russian"}}]}] ```