Gov. Kathy Hochul and Alec Baldwin appeared in a video spoof of President Trump at an annual state house correspondents event in Albany. Hochul played herself, receiving a late-night phone call from Baldwin’s Trump, who demanded that New York landmarks be named after him. The sketch included a Central Park joke corrected to “Cen-TRUMP Park,” followed by Hochul rejecting the idea and suggesting the Port Authority Bus Terminal instead. The video also referenced Epstein files, inflation, and Trump’s strained relationship with the media, including a shout out to The Post and its Albany reporter. Audience members laughed, while critics online accused the performance of being cringe-worthy and pandering, and questioned the cost to taxpayers.
"Gov. Kathy Hochul teamed up with "Glengarry Glen Ross" star Alec Baldwin for a video spoof of President Trump at the annual state house correspondents event in Albany that had critics panning the performance Wednesday. In the sketch, the gov plays herself answering a late-night phone call from Trump, who demands that New York landmarks be named after him."
""Kit-Kat, it's your favorite King," Baldwin, playing Trump, says - doing a disheveled, buffoonish impression à la his Saturday Night Live performance. "You know that big, beautiful park in Manhattan?" Trump asks. "Central Park?" says Hochul, who apparently filmed her part separately from the legendary bloviator. "Cen-TRUMP Park," he corrects her. "Yeah, that's a hard pass, Mr. President," she says."
"The video also poked fun at the Epstein files, inflation and Trump's fraught relationship with the media - it even gives a shout out to the The Post and its Albany reporter for hard-hitting coverage of the Capitol and budget disfunction. While the video was well received by the audience, with some laughter, critics online called it "cringe-worthy" and accused her of "pandering.""
""This is how you spend the time that New York taxpayers pay you to 'work'?" one observer wrote on X. "How much did this cringeworthy pandering cost us, top to bottom, start to finish?" Assemblyman Jarett Gandolfo (R-Nassau), who attended the event, told The Post, "I thought Baldwin's Epstein joke was ironic ... wasn't he in the Epstein files?""
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