So it turns out Alec Baldwin has a hot temper. Who would’ve thought?
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the man who plays President Trump as a loudmouth idiot on “Saturday Night Live” has been “arrested in New York for punching a man over a parking spot” and will be charged with assault.
The incident occurred in front of 28 East 10th St.
New York Police Department Det. Sophia Mason said of the encounter, “It looks like it was a dispute over the parking spot, and the person in custody punched him.”
Mason confirmed to THR that the suspect in custody was Alec Baldwin and was being held at the 6th precinct station. Representatives of Alec Baldwin have given no comment at this time.
That the 60-year-old Alec Baldwin was arrested for punching a man over something as ridiculous as a parking spot should come as a shock to no one, given the man’s history.
In 1995, Baldwin was arrested for allegedly assaulting a photographer for taking photographs of his then-wife Kim Basinger and their three-day-old daughter.
In 2011, Baldwin became unruly on an American Airlines flight when an attendant asked that he power off his phone for takeoff. He became so belligerent that he had to be removed from the plane, delaying several passengers’ flights.
In 2013, Baldwin lost his show on MSNBC when he called a photographer a “c***s***ing f**.” The homophobic slur did not derail his career.
The actor’s politics are every bit as heated as his temper, which are often to the left. Recently, he spoke of the need to “overthrow the government” at a Democratic fundraiser.
“In an orderly and formal way, and lawful way, we need to overthrow the government of the United States under Donald Trump,” Baldwin said.
“[This election] and the one that follows in 2020 will be the most consequential elections since the election of FDR,” he added. “It is time to overthrow the government of Donald Trump — not in a violent way or unlawful way — but it must be overthrown nonetheless.”
The actor also recently stepped into some interesting waters when he told The Hollywood Reporter that “black people love me.”
“I don’t know how to say this and I don’t want to get it wrong either, because everything is a minefield of bombs going off, but ever since I played Trump, black people love me,” the actor said. “They love me.”
“Everywhere I go, black people go crazy,” Baldwin said. “I think it’s because they’re most afraid of Trump. I’m not going to paint every African-American person with the same brush, but a significant number of them are sitting there going, ‘This is going to be bad for black folks.'”
What is most amazing about Baldwin is that no matter how many times he finds himself in hot water, he always seems to bounce back to the point of getting his own talk show on ABC, which has been doing poorly in the ratings.
“According to Nielsen, the premiere of ‘The Alec Baldwin Show’ on ABC garnered just a 0.4 rating among adults 18-49, the demographic most coveted by advertisers. The Baldwin-hosted chatfest was the lowest-rated program in the demo of any broadcast network — including the CW,” Fox News reported recently. “By comparison, NBC’s ‘Sunday Night Football’ matchup between the New England Patriots and Kansas City Chiefs earned a 6.1 rating among adults 18-49, CBS’ ’60 Minutes’ — which featured an interview with the president — drew a 1.9 rating and the CW premieres of ‘Supergirl’ and the reboot of ‘Charmed’ each drew a 0.5 rating.”