Who played Donald Trump on SNL in 2016 and won a 2017 Emmy for it?

Alec Baldwin played Donald Trump on SNL in 2016 and won a 2017 Emmy for the performance.

Baldwin first portrayed Trump during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign and continued the impression after Trump became president. The performance used Trump-inspired gestures, vocal mannerisms, facial expressions, and exaggerated versions of his public statements, making it one of SNL's most visible political impressions in decades.

At the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards in September 2017, Baldwin won Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for Saturday Night Live. He accepted the award while wearing a Trump-like hairstyle and opened with a joke addressed to the president, turning the award itself into part of the political satire.

The role is sometimes confused with earlier SNL Trump impersonators, including Darrell Hammond and Taran Killam. They also portrayed Trump at different points, but Baldwin was the performer whose 2016–17 work earned the Emmy. Jimmy Fallon played Trump in other comedy settings, not this Emmy-winning SNL run.