13 Feb 2017

Newspaper mistakes Alec Baldwin for Donald Trump

7:09 am on 13 February 2017

Actor Alec Baldwin's impression on US satirical show Saturday Night Live of Donald Trump tricked a national newspaper into thinking he was the real thing.

El Nacional in the Dominican Republic has now apologised for accidentally publishing a still of Alec Baldwin, captioned as the US president, next to Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu.

The image accompanied an article about Israeli settlements.

El Nacional mistook Alec Baldwin posing as Donald Trump for the real US president.

El Nacional printed a picture of Alec Baldwin and captioned it Donald Trump. Photo: Supplied

The paper has said sorry to readers and "anyone affected".

The picture was sent to the newspaper along with information about Saturday Night Live.

No-one spotted the mistake, said El Nacional.

Saturday Night Live is not Mr Trump's favourite TV programme. He said Baldwin's frequent impressions of him "stink".

"Not funny, cast is terrible, always a complete hit job. Really bad television!" he once tweeted.

- BBC