Alec Baldwin deletes Twitter again after being roasted for commenting on Gillian Anderson 'switching accents'
- Alec Baldwin has left Twitter again.
- The actor was widely mocked on the platform after commenting on Gillain Anderson's accent.
- He said Twitter is full of "haters" and "a--holes."
Alec Baldwin has deleted his Twitter account for the second time this year after being widely mocked for tweeting about actor Gillian Anderson using an American accent during her Golden Globes acceptance speech Sunday.
In the now-deleted tweet, Baldwin - who quit Twitter in January following the controversy surrounding his wife Hilaria ostensibly faking her Spanish heritage - reposted a news article about Anderson's accent with the caption "Switching accents? That sounds ... fascinating."
Anderon grew up in the US and the UK and has been known to straddle both accents, most convincingly during her performance as Margaret Thatcher in Netflix's "The Crown." In a lengthy Instagram video posted on Wednesday, Baldwin said his tweet was "not meant at all to be offensive" but he was leaving Twitter because the platform was full of "haters" and "a--holes" who did not understand irony.
"Of course you can't do any irony on Twitter," he said. "You can't do any irony in the United States anymore because the United States is such an uptight, stressed-out place and such an unpleasant place right now."
"Twitter is one-third interesting posts, one-third tedious, uninteresting, puerile nonsense, and then it's one-third, or more maybe, just abject hatred and malice and unpleasantness," he continued.
Baldwin, 62, does not name Anderson in the video but said he is a "huge fan" and his tweet was an attempt to "illustrate the point that multicultural expressions of anyone whatever your country, language, music, food, clothing, whatever any of those expressions are important to you ... that's your business" before concluding that Twitter "is where all the a--holes in the United States and beyond go to get their advanced degrees in a--holiness."
Earlier this year, Alec's wife Hilaria Baldwin, who was born Hillary Thomas, was at the center of controversy surrounding her cultural background. In December 2020, a widely shared Twitter thread collected Baldwin's past interviews and TV appearances and claimed that on numerous occasions she had seemed to fabricate her Spanish heritage.
The thread included several magazine profiles that said Baldwin was born in Mallorca, Spain when she was actually born in Boston, and one now widely shared TV clip of Hilaria Baldwin on the "Today" show in which she gives a cooking tutorial on how to make authentic gazpacho and seemingly forgets the word "cucumber."
In response to the Twitter thread, Hilaria posted an Instagram video where she confirmed she was born in Boston but spent much of her upbringing in Spain. She said that's why she tends to mix English and Spanish interchangeably before apologizing for not being "more clear" about her background.
On Tuesday, the couple announced that they have welcomed their sixth child. The baby was reportedly conceived with a surrogate and comes sixth months after Hilaria gave birth to their fifth child.