Professional Donald Trump impersonators (yes, that's a real job) are a little bummed that Trump's headline-grabbing bid for the presidency hasn't caused a massive spike in the Trump mimicking business. Impersonator John Di Domenico, who spoke with The Hill, said there has been "a bump" in business, but "conversely, I was thinking why isn't the work coming in like a torrent?"
Di Domenico chocks it up to the loss of corporate work, which usually tends to be his primary clients. "The fact that [Trump] declared as a Republican [means] I already lost half my corporate audience."
Most businesses don't want to be political in their entertainment, agreed Tim Beasley, who's been impersonating Trump for over a decade. "They'll always have a disclaimer that says, 'These views are not necessarily ours.'"
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