--- title: El Nacional Newspaper Mistakes Alec Baldwin for Donald Trump description: The Dominican Republic's 'El Nacional' accidentally identified actor Alec Baldwin as President Donald Trump after portraying Trump on 'SNL.' canonical: https://time.com/4669465/newspaper-mistakes-alec-baldwin-for-trump/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-13T19:20:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:41:03.699Z og:title: Newspaper Accidentally Mistakes Alec Baldwin for Donald Trump og:description: The paper has apologized og:url: https://time.com/4669465/newspaper-mistakes-alec-baldwin-for-trump/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf3287687d693f24d/6988ba21097b9062d19b8e63/alec-baldwin-mistaken-for-donald-trump-in-newspaper.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Saturday Night Live - Season 42 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Newspaper Accidentally Mistakes Alec Baldwin for Donald Trump twitter:description: The paper has apologized twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf3287687d693f24d/6988ba21097b9062d19b8e63/alec-baldwin-mistaken-for-donald-trump-in-newspaper.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Newspaper Apologizes After Accidentally Identifying Alec Baldwin as President Trump > Sponsored content. 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Trump on 'Saturday Night Live' on February 4th, 2017 NBC—NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Feb 13, 2017 7:20 PM UTC While [Alec Baldwin’s recurring impression of President Donald Trump on _Saturday Night Live_](http://time.com/4668129/alec-baldwin-donald-trump-saturday-night-live-peoples-court/) has endeared him to critics and fans alike, it hasn’t earned him any rave reviews from the president — at least, from that’s what one might conclude after reading [Trump’s tweets about the matter](http://time.com/4589807/snl-donald-trump-twitter/). But, it looks like Baldwin’s performance has been so convincing that a newspaper in the Dominican Republic actually identified a photo of Baldwin in character as Trump in their publication last Friday. According to [_CNN_](http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/12/politics/dominican-newspaper-confuses-baldwin-trump/index.html), _El Nacional_ published a photo of Baldwin dressed up as Trump on _SNL_, along with a caption that identified him as “Donald Trump, president of the USA.” The paper gave a statement after the debacle, apologizing for the misidentification. “The situation went unnoticed by those who revised page 19,” they wrote. “El Nacional apologizes to its readers and anyone who felt affected.” Let the “fake news” jokes commence. > [](https://twitter.com/0xUID/status/830684792488357888) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4669465/newspaper-mistakes-alec-baldwin-for-trump/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4669465/newspaper-mistakes-alec-baldwin-for-trump/"},"headline":"Newspaper Apologizes After Accidentally Identifying Alec Baldwin as President Trump","datePublished":"2017-02-13T19:20:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:41:03.699Z","description":"'El Nacional' has apologized","url":"https://time.com/4669465/newspaper-mistakes-alec-baldwin-for-trump/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","politics","SNL","Alec Baldwin","celebrity","Donald Trump","Culture"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf3287687d693f24d/6988ba21097b9062d19b8e63/alec-baldwin-mistaken-for-donald-trump-in-newspaper.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf3287687d693f24d/6988ba21097b9062d19b8e63/alec-baldwin-mistaken-for-donald-trump-in-newspaper.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 via 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":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4669465/newspaper-mistakes-alec-baldwin-for-trump/","name":"Newspaper Apologizes After Accidentally Identifying Alec Baldwin as President Trump"}}]}] ```