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Dominican paper apologizes for using Alec Baldwin’s SNL photo for Donald Trump

This screen grab of the Friday, Feb. 10, 2017 digitized version of Dominican Republic's El Nacional print edition shows comedian Alec Baldwin doing his impression of President Donald Trump on "Saturday Night Live," next to a photo of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the paper's international page with the Spanish headline: "Trump says settlements in Israel don't favor peace." The Spanish caption under Baldwin's photo reads: "Donald Trump, president of U.S." .
This screen grab of the Friday, Feb. 10, 2017 digitized version of Dominican Republic's El Nacional print edition shows comedian Alec Baldwin doing his impression of President Donald Trump on "Saturday Night Live," next to a photo of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the paper's international page with the Spanish headline: "Trump says settlements in Israel don't favor peace." The Spanish caption under Baldwin's photo reads: "Donald Trump, president of U.S." . (El Nacional via AP)

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – Alec Baldwin does a pretty convincing Donald Trump impersonation – just ask a newspaper in the Dominican Republic.

El Nacional published an apology on Saturday after mistakenly running a photo of the actor doing his impression of the U.S. president on Saturday Night Live instead of Trump himself.

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Accompanying an article in its Friday edition headlined in Spanish: “Trump says settlements in Israel don’t favour peace,” a photo of a scowling Baldwin in a blond wig appears next to a photo of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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In a statement posted on its website, the Dominican newspaper said a photo of Baldwin imitating Trump – over the caption “Donald Trump, president of the USA” – was published on page 19 and the mistake went unnoticed by the newspaper’s staff.

“El Nacional apologizes to its readers and anyone who felt affect by the publication” of the photo, the statement said.

Trump has lashed out at the way “Saturday Night Live” has lampooned him, saying Baldwin’s semi-regular portrayal of him “stinks.”

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