Maeve McDermott

USATODAY

If you've watched Saturday Night Live anytime in the past few months, you know that Alec Baldwin isn't a fan of Donald Trump — and if you've seen Trump's Twitter the morning after Baldwin's SNL appearances, you know the feeling's mutual.

When Taran Killam left SNL earlier this year, the show lost its most reliable Trump impersonator, right as the election was heating up. So the show recruited Baldwin to don a wig and impersonate Trump's hands-talking, and viewers have responded favorably, earning the its highest ratings since the real Trump hosted the show last year.

The New York Times went behind-the-scenes of Baldwin's prep for a recent episode, watching him put on his Trump wig that's "custom made for Mr. Baldwin’s head, via seven vectors measured forehead to nape."

As the actor explained, the key to playing Trump are "puffs," the pauses in between his words. "I see a guy who seems to pause and dig for the more precise and better language he wants to use, and never finds it,” he said. “It’s the same dish — it’s a grilled-cheese sandwich rhetorically over and over again.”

Elsewhere in the article, Baldwin dismisses claims that his portrayal of Trump "normalizes" the president-elect's more controversial behavior. “I do recognize that that is a possibility,” he said. “But I think that now that he is the president, we have an obligation — as we would if it was him or her — to dial it up as much as we can.”

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