Alec Baldwin’s very bad weekend: Mocked by ‘SNL,’ hounded by paparazzi, wears same shirt three days in a row

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Alec Baldwin’s Emmy-winning Donald Trump impression was noticeably absent from “Saturday Night Live,” given that it was the weekend before the highly consequential mid-term elections and the president’s campaign tirades against immigrants could have provided plenty of material for satire.

Instead, the show dealt with the president’s anti-immigrant fear-mongering in a different way, while also throwing shade at Baldwin over his arrest Friday morning for allegedly assaulting someone outside his Manhattan apartment in a dispute over a parking spot.

In the show’s cold open, Kate McKinnon played Fox News host Laura Ingraham, riling up anti-immigrant hysteria, talking about the “dozens, maybe millions of illegal immigrants … headed straight for you and your grandchildren.”

Following some “footage” of the “caravan” — shoppers flooding into a store during Black Friday sales and a scene from Brad Pitt’s zombie film “World War Z” — McKinnon’s Ingraham then flashed an image of Baldwin as a scoutmaster and Adam Sandler as “Canteen Boy” from a classic “SNL” sketch.

McKinnon-as-Ingraham said, “When we come back, an update from disgraced former actor Alec Baldwin — seen here molesting a young Boy Scout.”

This was just one of the indignities suffered by the 60-year-old actor following his arrest Friday morning over his latest public display of hot-headedness.

The actor, who has been involved in several high-profile altercations in the streets of Manhattan over the years, was taken into custody outside his East Village apartment building after a fight with a 49-year-old construction business owner. People on Twitter shared images of the fight, in which Baldwin was accused of punching Wojciech Cieszkowski in the jaw.

Police said someone was holding a parking space open for Baldwin in front of his apartment building, when Cieszkowski swooped in to take it, Page Six and other outlets reported.

The Daily Mail speculated that Baldwin needed the space right in front of his building so that he could load his wife Hilaria and their four young children into a car to head out to the Hamptons for the weekend.

The Daily Mail, citing eyewitness statements, reported that Baldwin “lost control” and went after Cieszkowski as he went to pay the meter. Cieszkowski, who claimed Baldwin slugged him in the jaw, was later taken to a nearby hospital.

Baldwin denied throwing a punch, though he was taken to the NYPD’s nearby 6th Precinct and issued a summons for misdemeanor assault and harassment, the New York Times reported. In a tweet from the account for his family’s foundation, Baldwin wrote that the “assertion that I punched anyone over a parking spot is false.”

Paparazzi surrounded Baldwin as he left the police station Friday, and they spent the weekend camped outside his apartment and following his movements.

Photographers caught him leaving his apartment Saturday to head out to a church in East Hampton to attend the funeral service of a friend who had recently died of brain cancer, the Daily Mail reported.

It was noted by the Daily Mail that Baldwin, while attending the service, appeared to be wearing the same shirt he had worn Thursday — while taping a podcast with his wife and NBC News correspondent Stephanie Ruhle — and on Friday, when he was arrested.

Baldwin was at least wearing something else — and looked freshly showered — when he was photographed Sunday using keys to enter another apartment building, down the street from his home, the Daily Mail reported. He came out of the building about three hours later, carrying an empty computer box that he used to shield his face from photographers.

Baldwin was seen again Sunday night, this time with his family as the group made their way out of their apartment building and headed off to unknown destinations in three separate cars, the Daily Mail reported.

Hilaria Baldwin, 34, emerged first with their four children, a nanny and a second woman.

The children, the nanny and the woman got into the SUV, then Hilaria Baldwin, wearing oversized sunglasses, headed back into the building. There she conferred with her husband in the foyer, then came back outside and got into a second car, which drove off.

A short while later, Baldwin exited the building and climbed into a third car, which drove off.

If there’s any consolation for Baldwin, neither of the networks that currently employ him announced plans over the weekend to take action against him, the Daily Mail reported. NBC issued no comment, with the network’s only public response being McKinnon’s punchline at the end of “Saturday Night Live’s” cold open. It’s not known if Baldwin actually was scheduled to appear on the show this weekend.

ABC said it would air Baldwin’s talk show Sunday night as scheduled.

While Baldwin’s nemesis, President Trump, half jokingly told reporters Friday he wished Baldwin “luck” with his latest legal troubles, his oldest son Donald Trump Jr. echoed the anger of conservatives who questioned why the actor continues to suffer little or no repercussions when he loses his temper, gets into street fights, and yells at people, including his 11-year-old daughter Ireland in an angry voicemail that went viral in 2007.

Trump Jr. called Baldwin “a piece of garbage” in a tweet Friday.

New York Post writer Andrea Peyser echoed that view in a column asking, “How come Alec Baldwin always gets away with it?”

“Alec has been running roughshod over ordinary people for years,” Peyser wrote. “But in each case, he is never punished, and his lunatic anger is never halted. He’s gotten away with it so long, regular rules of behavior simply do not apply.”

Daily Mail columnist Chris Spargo accused ABC and NBC of engaging in a double standard, given that ABC quickly fired Roseanne Barr in May after she posted a racist tweet about Valerie Jarrett and NBC parted ways with Megyn Kelly earlier this month after she defended blackface.

“Kelly and Barr’s offenses certainly had a greater impact than Baldwin’s alleged assault of his victim,” Spargo wrote. “But this is not the first time he is run into trouble.”

“In fact, Baldwin was hired by both networks after incidents in which he hurled homophobic slurs at a photographer, told a female reporter of his desire to see her die as a result of physical violence and been belligerent with cops,” Spargo wrote.

Incidents of Baldwin losing his cool go back to at least 1995 when he allegedly assaulted a photographer for videotaping Kim Basinger, his wife at the time, and their 3-day-old daughter Ireland when they were returning home from the hospital.

His marriage to Basinger also was famously volatile, as was the custody battle over Ireland that followed their 2002 divorce.

As part of their divorce and custody agreement, Baldwin was expected to attend anger therapy sessions and parenting school, New York magazine reported.

But Baldwin was not always successful at keeping his anger in check, as was evidenced by the angry voicemail he left for Ireland. In the message, Baldwin screamed at his daughter for not picking up his scheduled call. He called her a “pig” and threatened to “straighten (her) out.” At the time, Baldwin was flying high in his Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning role on TV’s “30 Rock.”

Baldwin later issued an apology on his website, saying, “I’m sorry, as everyone who knows me is aware, for losing my temper with my child.”

But Baldwin’s temper has flared in the years since the 2007 voicemail scandal.

In 2011, Baldwin was kicked off a flight for refusing to turn off his phone. He said he was playing Words with Friends, according to CBS News.

In 2013, Baldwin’s talk show on MSNBC was suspended after he got into a confrontation with a photographer in which Baldwin used a gay slur. As with the incident in 1995, the photographer was trying to take photos of Baldwin and his wife and baby. In this case, the wife was Hilaria and the baby was one of their children together.

Baldwin was arrested the following year after he allegedly acted belligerent toward police officers while he was riding his bicycle the wrong way on the street.

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