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Newspaper Runs Photo Of Alec Baldwin Instead Of Donald Trump

An honest mistake.
Sebastian Murdock
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Senior Reporter, HuffPost

A screenshot from the digital version of El Nacional newspaper's Friday, Feb. 10, 2017 edition, showing a photo of Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump alongside a photo of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
A screenshot from the digital version of El Nacional newspaper's Friday, Feb. 10, 2017 edition, showing a photo of Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump alongside a photo of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
El Nacional

Alec Baldwin has won praise for playing President Donald Trump.

And it turns out he’s so convincing, a Dominican Republic newspaper ran a photo of the actor portraying Trump instead of the president. The article discussed Trump’s stance on Israeli settlements, according to Haaretz.

El Nacional issued a correction shortly after the Friday gaffe, but not before it had circulated all over the internet:

Dominican newspaper uses picture of Alex Baldwin instead of president Trump. pic.twitter.com/exxsAufnrd

— You Had One Job (@_youhadonejob1) February 11, 2017

Baldwin has been playing Trump regularly on “Saturday Night Live,” much to the president’s annoyance.

Just tried watching Saturday Night Live - unwatchable! Totally biased, not funny and the Baldwin impersonation just can't get any worse. Sad

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 4, 2016

In defense of El Nacional, Baldwin’s version of Trump looks far more presidential than the president himself. Baldwin will likely be playing the president again when he hosts this week’s “Saturday Night Live.”

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