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#EndorseThis: The Origin Story Of Anthony Atamanuik’s Trump Impression

#EndorseThis: The Origin Story Of Anthony Atamanuik’s Trump Impression

Anthony Atamanuik, host — you could say — of The President Show on Comedy Central guested on Seth Meyers’s Late Night on Tuesday. He explained the origin of his knockout Trump impression, which started as an audience suggestion at an improv show, grew into a nationwide tour, and ended up a cable TV show.

Atamanuik said he feels like Dustin Hoffman eponymous character in the movie Tootsie: as soon as he embodied Trump, he saw success he hadn’t previously known.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0u1-IlMqYs

#EndorseThis: Scaramucci’s Steamy ‘President Show’ Farewell

#EndorseThis: Scaramucci’s Steamy ‘President Show’ Farewell

The real Anthony Scaramucci lost his job on Monday, but the President Show iteration — played by Mario Cantone — hung around for three days to deliver his farewell address on Thursday night. And after a thoroughly un-Christian make-out session, the White House reverts, in the words of Anthony Atamanuik’s Trump, “back to complete chaos — just the way I like it.”

#EndorseThis: Trump Crashes Focus Group On ‘The President Show’

#EndorseThis: Trump Crashes Focus Group On ‘The President Show’

Yesterday, it was James Adomian‘s Bernie Sanders. Today, we’ve got his former sparring partner, Anthony Atamanuik’s unmatchable Trump impression.

Atamanuik, in character, hosts The President Show on Comedy Central every Thursday. In this week’s pre-taped segment, he and Vice President Mike Pence (Peter Grosz; also one of Sonic’s “two guys“) observe a focus group designed ostensibly to gauge Trump’s public approval rating.