Business booms 'bigly' for Trump impersonators

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Booked-out diaries, assassination fears and an assault in a hotel lift: Donald Trump impersonators have had quite a ride since the Maga original returned to the White House.

With “appearances at parades, golf tournaments and even kids’ parties” the Trump lookalike industry is booming, said The Independent.

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‘Bulletproof vest’

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There is also money to be made on this side of the Atlantic. A Trump impersonator from Southampton, whose income has already increased by 40% since Trump was re-elected, told The Guardian he is expecting an “unstoppable” four years of business. Mike Osman, also known as “Donald Trumped”, says the secret to mimicking the US president’s skin tone is to “slap on the matt foundation with a brush and then use a lighter colour around the eyes”.

But the rewards of imitating such a polarising political figure are not without risk. John Di Domenico, “the world’s most famous Trump impersonator”, said he has been urged by friends to wear a bulletproof vest after he was attacked “by a livid liberal” in a Las Vegas lift last summer, said The Sun. Di Domenico told the paper that feelings about Trump run so high, he now “requires security staff for gigs”.