--- ---  # Dana Carvey Has Perfected His Donald Trump Impression by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jun 8, 2016 2:13 PM UTC  Dana Carvey performs at the 4th Annual Evening To Foster Dreams at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on May 10, 2016. Dana Carvey performs at the 4th Annual Evening To Foster Dreams at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on May 10, 2016.FilmMagic—CASA of Los Angeles by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jun 8, 2016 2:13 PM UTC Donald Trump is the impression of the year, according to Conan O’Brien, so when noted impressionist Dana Carvey stopped by his show, naturally O’Brien asked him to weigh in. Carvey, who polished his presidential impressions when he played President George H.W. Bush on _Saturday Night Live,_ had been working on his take on Trump, who he views as a “Batman villain.” Carvey was able to whip out a few ideas of what a possible President Trump could be saying post-World War III. “We had a fabulous nuclear war. It was fabulous,” said Carvey as Trump. “Your bunkers look terrific. The Chinese bunkers are a disaster.” Carvey admitted that he didn’t know where his Trump impression was going, as it was becoming more free form the longer he played with it and the longer the presumptive Republican presidential nominee stayed in the spotlight, a concern that O’Brien understood, as he has been working on [an impression](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MQf89QYimk) of former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for years. Carvey who is promoting his new television show [_First Impressions_](http://www.usanetwork.com/firstimpressionswithdanacarvey), proved he is the master of the art form by also treating the _Conan_ audience to his take on Bernie Sanders and Bill and Hillary Clinton. Dana Carvey Has Perfected His Donald Trump Impression ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4361165/dana-carvey-donald-trump-impression-conan/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4361165/dana-carvey-donald-trump-impression-conan/"},"headline":"Dana Carvey Has Perfected His Donald Trump Impression","datePublished":"2016-06-08T14:13:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:33:06.759Z","description":"Carvey also had a Bernie Sanders impression","url":"https://time.com/4361165/dana-carvey-donald-trump-impression-conan/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Hillary Clinton","Television","Conan O'brien","Bernie Sanders","Donald Trump","conan"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6537b3c1d4f9559b/698896efcd1bba5e07701052/dana-carvey-impression-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6537b3c1d4f9559b/698896efcd1bba5e07701052/dana-carvey-impression-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"4th Annual Evening To Foster Dreams","caption":"4th Annual Evening To Foster Dreams","creditText":"FilmMagic—CASA of Los Angeles","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4361165/dana-carvey-donald-trump-impression-conan/","name":"Dana Carvey Has Perfected His Donald Trump Impression"}}]}] ```