--- title: Donald Trump Taxes: Impersonator 'Releases' Returns at March description: A President Trump impersonator "released" the presidents "taxes" at a protest march in Washington, D.C. on what's typically "Tax Day" canonical: https://time.com/4742162/trump-impersonator-at-tax-march/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-17T13:14:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:47:32.565Z og:title: Trump Impersonator 'Releases' His Taxes at Saturday March og:description: "I'm going to share with you what's on my taxes." og:url: https://time.com/4742162/trump-impersonator-at-tax-march/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Trump Impersonator 'Releases' His Taxes at Saturday March twitter:description: "I'm going to share with you what's on my taxes." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch This Donald Trump Impersonator 'Release' His Taxes at the March > Sponsored content. 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Thousands of people marched in cities around the country to demand that President Trump release his tax returns on Tax Day, in a demonstration that echoed the 2009 tax rallies that launched the Tea Party movement._ by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Apr 17, 2017 1:14 PM UTC by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Apr 17, 2017 1:14 PM UTC On April 15, marchers [took to the streets](http://time.com/4739566/trump-tax-day-march-protest-returns/) across [the U.S](http://time.com/4741538/donald-trump-tax-rally-berkeley/). to demand that President Donald Trump hand his returns over to the American public. While the real President Trump seems less and less poised to release his returns, which is common for American presidential candidates and presidents, an impersonator was [eager to hand over his returns](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbIMFLH7hQc) at a Saturday march in Washington. “What’s the big deal about my taxes? OK, since you guys are my supporters, I’m going to share with you what’s on my taxes. Don’t let the protestors know what I’m going to tell you,” Anthony Atamanuik said. The impersonator “revealed” that [he owed millions Deutsche Bank](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/feb/16/how-donald-trump-became-deutsche-bank-biggest-headache), but he also joked that he “knows where all of the Nazi gold is hidden” because he has it. “I have it. I have it,” said the fake Trump. He also denounced the [White House visitor logs](http://time.com/4740499/white-house-visitor-logs-public-record-trump/), which TIME reported that President Trump will not be releasing, saying he’s “not running a B & B.” The fake president also said he claimed daughter Ivanka Trump as three dependents, “my daughter, my mother, and my wife,” and called himself the “United Airlines of presidents” before tossing shredded returns into the crowd. “I told Jared to shred my taxes, but I thought shred was Yiddish for collate.” Some in the crowd appeared to be a bit fired up, and angry even, at the impersonator who called on the crowd to direct their fire at the actual president. “Satire is the heart of political discourse so it is a joke and I’m the biggest joke on the block, let me tell you,” he said. ## Transcript [00:00] No [00:02] more [00:05] lies, [00:07] no [00:10] more [00:12] secrets! [00:15] [ MUSIC ] He [00:27] does not believe that he has to be accountable [00:31] to the people, but we will pressure him. We [00:35] will hound him. We will harass him. 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