Alec Baldwin is a Perfect Donald Trump

Her Clinton projects an almost demonic competence and an undisguised contempt for a public that has consistently underestimated or rejected her. Yet the character is also madly cheerful

.. Beyond capturing the low-hanging Trumpisms, Baldwin conveyed the pathetic smallness of Trump’s cruelty, the pithy meanness with which he attacks anyone who irritates him (be they babies, political opponents, or beauty queens)—a meanness that Trump cannot seem to control.