Actor Alec Baldwin claims first lady Melania Trump “loves” his impersonation of President Trump on “Saturday Night Live.”
Baldwin says the first lady told someone “very high up in the White House” that she’s a fan.
“Someone told me — who’s friends with someone in the White House, or formerly in the White House — that Melania Trump loves ‘SNL’ and she loves my impersonation and told this person, very high up in the White House brass there, that, ‘That’s exactly what he’s like,’” Baldwin said on WNYC’s “The Brian Lehrer Show” on Monday.
“Apparently Trump is horrified and beside himself that his wife actually thinks it’s funny,” Baldwin continued.
A spokeswoman for Melania Trump called Baldwin’s claim “bizarre.”
“That is not true, which is why Mr. Baldwin has no actual names to go with his bizarre assertion,” Stephanie Grisham told the Washington Examiner.
The president has publicly called Baldwin’s portrayal of him “not funny.”
Baldwin won an Emmy Award in September for his portrayal of Trump on the comedy show.
He is promoting his new book “You Can’t Spell America Without Me: The Really Tremendous Inside Story of my Fantastic First Year as President Donald J. Trump.”
