Actor Alec Baldwin has followed up his latest parody portrayal of President Donald Trump with a serious call for voters to use the November 6 midterm elections to peacefully "overthrow" the government.
After reprising his role as Trump on Saturday Night Live, Baldwin flew to New Hampshire, where he was the keynote speaker at the New Hampshire Democratic Party's annual fall fundraising dinner.
"The way we implement change in America is through elections. We change governments here at home in an orderly and formal way," he said.
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"In that orderly and formal way and lawful way, we need to overthrow the government of the United States under Donald Trump."
Baldwin said on issue after issue, Republicans are destroyers, not builders.
"There is a small cadre of people currently in power who are hell-bent on continuing a malicious immigration policy that has set this country up for human rights violations charges by the global community.
"This cadre has looted money from the federal treasury and deposited it directly into the bank accounts of their most ardent political supporters," he said.
He said Republicans "shrug" when it comes to gun violence, "spit in the face" at the rest of the world at the notion of changing outdated energy policies and offer neither hope nor solutions to people of colour "who seek a decent seat at the American economic table but instead are issued a prison term, or worse, a bullet."
