Always be cringing.
Gov. Kathy Hochul teamed up with “Glengarry Glen Ross” star Alec Baldwin for a video spoof of President Trump at the annual state house correspondents event in Albany that had critics panning the performance Wednesday.
In the sketch, the gov plays herself answering a late-night phone call from Trump, who demands that New York landmarks be named after him.
“Kit-Kat, it’s your favorite King,” Baldwin, playing Trump, says — doing a disheveled, buffoonish impression à la his Saturday Night Live performance.
“You know that big, beautiful park in Manhattan?” Trump asks.
“Central Park?” says Hochul, who apparently filmed her part separately from the legendary bloviator.
“Cen-TRUMP Park,” he corrects her.
“Yeah, that’s a hard pass, Mr. President,” she says.
“How about another spot that makes me think of you?” she says — then suggests the widely loathed Port Authority Bus Terminal, which has been dubbed a filthy, confusing “hell hole.”
The video was played at the Legislative Correspondents’ Association, New York’s equivalent of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Tuesday.
The video also poked fun at the Epstein files, inflation and Trump’s fraught relationship with the media — it even gives a shout out to the The Post and its Albany reporter for hard-hitting coverage of the Capitol and budget disfunction.
While the video was well received by the audience, with some laughter, critics online called it “cringe-worthy” and accused her of “pandering.”
“This is how you spend the time that New York taxpayers pay you to ‘work’?” one observer wrote on X.
“How much did this cringeworthy pandering cost us, top to bottom, start to finish?”
Assemblyman Jarett Gandolfo (R-Nassau), who attended the event, told The Post, “I thought Baldwin’s Epstein joke was ironic … wasn’t he in the Epstein files?”
“Regardless, he wasn’t even the best Trump impersonator in the show,” he added.
At the event, Hochul entered the stage through a fog machine and joked she was on her “Wrath of Kath” tour.
The annual event put on by the Albany press corps raised $23,000 for the regional food bank of northeastern New York last year, and was expected to raise a similar amount this year.
