President Donald Trump launched a misspelled attack against actor Alec Baldwin over his "Saturday Night Live" portrayal but deleted the post minutes later.
The president twice misspelled the actor's name as "Alex" in the tweet, which was posted at 5:42 a.m., and insisted Baldwin revived his "dieing" career by playing Trump on the sketch comedy program.
"Alex Baldwin, whose dieing mediocre career was saved by his impersonation of me on SNL, now says playing DJT was agony for him," Trump tweeted. "Alex, it was also agony for those who were forced to watch. You were terrible. Bring back Darrell Hammond, much funnier and a far greater talent!"
The tweet was deleted by 6 a.m., but multiple Twitter users took screenshots of the misspelled post.
Trump then reposted the attack, but with the misspellings corrected, 25 minutes after the original tweet, at 6:07 a.m.
Alec Baldwin, whose dying mediocre career was saved by his terrible impersonation of me on SNL, now says playing me… https://t.co/Ntuy4BRXmJ— Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump) 1519988860.0
Like many of his early morning tweets, this one was prompted by a Fox News report that aired at 4:24 a.m. about Baldwin, who gave a lengthy interview Thursday with The Hollywood Reporter.
Oh sweet Jesus. At 4:24 am, Fox & Friends First ran a segment about Alec Baldwin saying he was tired of playing Tr… https://t.co/cDttHv7nsB— Matthew Gertz (@Matthew Gertz) 1519992081.0
