Bryan Alexander

USA TODAY

Alec Baldwin has Twitter advice for Donald Trump. Back away from the tweets, for your own good.

Baldwin speaks from experience, having quit Twitter in 2013 before returning with a much more subdued style of tweeting. It's a difficult medium filled with trolls and criticism.

"The President of the United States should have his office do the tweeting," Baldwin tells USA TODAY. "I had a very strange relationship with Twitter, because in the beginning, I thought it was an opportunity for me to communicate directly with my audience. And I tried to do that. Therefore when people picked a fight with me, whether they were mean to me or they spit on me in the digital world, I got angry. And I would get into these rants with people. And I stopped and said to myself, ‘What the hell am I doing?’ And you let it go."

"No matter what you do, you’re never going to be able to control the opinions of all of these people," says Baldwin, who lampoons the president on Saturday Night Live and has sparred with Trump on Twitter. "They hate, because that is what they need to do, my political opposites."

Instead of Twitter attacks, Trump should rise in the morning and think about taking care of the American people, Baldwin says.

"I think, ‘What would I do if I were president?’" says Baldwin, who plays a hard-nosed businessman in a baby's body in his upcoming animated movie The Boss Baby (in theaters March 31). "If I were president, I would really wake up every day and think, 'How can I help the most people in this country get ahead?' "

In Baldwin's mind, Trump isn't capable of that.

"I just don’t think Trump has the physical or intellectual or spiritual — let me emphasize spiritual — energy to do the job," Baldwin says. "Which is why I think we are where we are right now."