While Alec Baldwin is best known these days for his impersonation of President Trump on NBC’s Saturday Night Live program, the liberal actor/activist used a speech on Sunday night to attack the Republican occupant of the White House and the rest of the GOP as well.
During a keynote address at the New Hampshire Democratic Party’s annual fall fund-raising dinner in Manchester, Baldwin told voters to peacefully “overthrow the government of the United States under Donald Trump” even though the president will not be up for re-election until 2020.
“The way we implement change in America is through elections,” he stated. “We change governments here in an orderly and formal way.” According to an article by Holly Ramer of the Associated Press, Baldwin used the opportunity to issue a “serious call” for people to “use the Nov. 6 midterm elections” to attack Trump and the rest of his political party because Republicans are “destroyers, not builders.”
The liberal activist also claimed:
There is a small cadre of people currently in power who are hellbent on continuing a malicious immigration policy that has set this country up for charges of human rights violations by the global community.
This cadre has looted money from the federal treasury and deposited it directly into the bank accounts of their most ardent political supporters so that they and several generations of their decedents will have the resources to remain the GOP in political power for as long as possible.
As if that wasn’t bizarre enough, Ramer quoted Baldwin as saying: “Republicans ‘shrug’ when it comes to gun violence, ‘spit in the face’ at the rest of the world at the notion of changing outdated energy policies and offer neither hope nor solutions to people of color ‘who seek a decent seat at the American economic table but instead are issued a prison term or worse, a bullet.’”
In addition, the recent confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh showed that Republicans view women as undeserving as the same constitutional protections as men, he said.
“They themselves are sons, husbands, fathers,” he continued, “and yet, when the time arrived, in the thick of the Me Too movement to set politics aside, that women’s rights were more important than political expediency, they failed, and it was ugly.”
Of course, Baldwin never mentioned the fact that his treatment of women hasn’t always been civil.
As NewsBusters previously reported, the actor left a vicious voice mail message for Ireland -- his 11-year-old daughter -- in April of 2007 after she missed a scheduled phone call.
“You are a rude, thoughtless little pig,” he said during a vicious custody battle with her mother, actress Kim Basinger. “You don't have the brains or the decency as a human being.”
“I don't give a damn that you're 12 years old, or 11 years old, or that you're a child, or that your mother is a thoughtless pain in the ass who doesn't care about what you do as far as I'm concerned,” he added.
Also on Sunday, Ramer noted that “Baldwin’s appearance in the state that holds the first presidential primary came hours before the premiere of … The Alec Baldwin Show, which will feature one-on-one conversations with celebrities and cultural icons” on ABC.
It’s entertaining that Baldwin claimed his program wouldn’t be “overtly political,” especially since his first guest was another liberal actor/activist, Robert DeNiro, who stated that he is “so offended by Trump and other Republicans.”
Also, Baldwin asserted last week that “black people love me” because of his Trump impersonation.
Of course, this liberal actor isn’t the first person to try moving from entertainment into politics, but calling for people to overthrow the government is not the best way to begin a new career.
