Whatever your opinion is of Alec Baldwin’s impression of Donald Trump, the recurring Saturday Night Live bit has earned the actor high praise. He won an Emmy this year for his quickie spray-tanned take on the president, and–to hear Baldwin tell it–his take on Trump has the thumbs-up from someone even higher-up than Emmy voters.

“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,” said Baldwin during an interview with WNYC radio’s Brain Lehrer.

According to this unnamed source inside the White House (or formerly in the White House), the First Lady loves the bombastic impression because of it’s accuracy, as Melania allegedly said “that’s exactly what he’s like.” The actor added, “Trump is horrified and beside himself that his wife actually thinks it’s funny.”

This assertion has turned into a game of he-said-on-the radio/she-said-by-way-of-surrogate-in-email, as Melania Trump’s director of communications Stephanie Grisham told Newsweek in an email: “That is not true, which is why Mr. Baldwin has no actual names to go with his bizarre assertion.”

Whether or not any of this is true, there’s really no way to tell. And honestly, getting to the bottom of whether or not Melania Trump thinks Baldwin’s tightly pursed performance is accurate is definitely not on Robert Mueller’s to-do list.

(via Huffington Post)

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