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Alec Baldwin and 12 Other Actors Who’ve Played Donald Trump
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Phil Hartman, “Saturday Night Live” (1988-1990)
Long earlier than Alec Baldwin donned a blond wig, the late Phil Hartman performed Donald Trump in a sequence of sketches. The first mocked Donald and Ivana Trump (Jan Hooks) as out-of-touch wealthy folks at Christmas-time, whereas later skits depicted the couple’s tabloid divorce.
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Darrell Hammond, “Saturday Night Live” (1999-2011)
Before Baldwin, Hammond was the go-to impersonator of Trump, beginning with two sketches in 1989 after which on and off in a number of sketches over the following decade. He even returned to don a too-long pink tie when Trump was visitor host in 2015.
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Louis Ferreira, “Trump Unauthorized” (2005)
The Portugese-born actor — greatest identified for his work on TV sequence like “Stargate Universe,” “Breaking Bad” and “S.W.A.T.” — starred as the actual property mogul-turned actuality star in a 2005 ABC film.
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Jason Sudeikis, “Saturday Night Live” (2012)
In a chilly open parody of “Fox & Friends,” Sudeikis channeled Trump criticizing President Barack Obama’s dealing with of Hurricane Sandy. Ironically, he additionally performed Joe Biden through the first years of the Trump administration.
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Taran Killam, “Saturday Night Live” (2015)
After Trump introduced his bid for the White House, Taran Killam grimaced his manner by way of sketches because the (then) long-shot candidate in a sequence of episodes by way of the early months of the 2016 marketing campaign.
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Johnny Depp, “#FODTrumpMovie: Introducing Ivana” (2016)
The closely made-up “Pirates of the Caribbean” star performed an ’80s-era Trump (reverse Micheala Watkins’ Ivana) in a “found” video posted by Funny or Die in February 2016.
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Alec Baldwin, “Saturday Night Live” (2016-)
The former “30 Rock” star started enjoying Trump in October 2016 only one month earlier than the mogul’s shock election victory — and he has continued to lampoon the president all through his presidency, usually within the chilly open that kicks off the present.
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Bob DiBuono, “The Nightly Show Larry Wilmore Show” (2016)
Comedian Bob DiBuono has emerged as one of many main Trump impersonators, showing frequently on Larry Willmore’s Comedy Central present in addition to “Murphy Brown” and “The View.”
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