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Alec Baldwin calls Americans 'very uninformed' following T**** victory
TURIN, Italy (TNND) — Actor Alec Baldwin on Tuesday warned of an American “information gap” following the presidential election, saying it led to some feeling “very unhappy.”
His comments came while visiting Italy for the Torino Film Festival. The United States, he said, is currently in the middle of a troubling time following the election of President-elect Donald Trump.
“In my country, without going into significant detail, half the people in the country are happy and half the people in the country are very unhappy,” he said. “It’s a very difficult time in the United States.”
Part of the responsibility for this phenomenon lies with television news outlets, Baldwin claimed.
“Television news in the United States is a business, they have to make money,” he said. “There’s a hole, there’s a vacuum, there is a gap in information for Americans.”
Despite Baldwin's comment, Pew Research reports over half of Americans "at least sometimes" get their news and information from social media.
Americans, Baldwin continued, are “uninformed” on major issues affecting the global population.
“Americans are very uninformed about reality, what’s really going on with climate change, Ukraine, Israel, you name it, all the biggest topics in the world,” Baldwin said. “Americans have an appetite for a little bit of information.”
The film industry could play a role in helping inform the masses by becoming “not only entertaining but informative as well," Baldwin said.
“That vacuum is filled by the film industry, not just the independent film industry, not just the documentary film industry-- which are very important around the world-- but by narrative films as well.”
“Now is probably one of the most important times in our history for us to make films that will teach people about what reality is around the world,” he added.
Baldwin previously portrayed Trump on Saturday Night Live. His performance relied heavily on replicating T****’s sometimes pouting disposition and tendency to exaggerate during speaking engagements.
“The terms law and order, they’re very vague terms and rules are meant to be broken,” Baldwin said while performing Trump on Saturday Night Live in 2020.
Actress Jamie Lee Curtis also spoke out following the election, encouraging Americans to “fight.”
“Many will be stunned and sad with the terrible feelings of the loss,” she wrote via Instagram. “But what it really means is that we wake up and fight,” she added “Fight for women and our children and their futures and fight against tyranny, one day at a time.”
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