--- title: Donald Trump Impersonator Anthony Atamanuik Joins Colbert description: Everyone has a Donald Trump impression, but no one has the President's number like Trump's most dedicated satirist, Anthony Atamanuik. canonical: https://time.com/4750131/stephen-colbert-donald-trump-impersonator/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-21T12:57:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:43:01.692Z og:title: Stephen Colbert Made a Trump Impersonator Say Things Trump Would Never Say og:description: "My support Bill O'Reilly was wrong. Insensitive and totally stupid." og:url: https://time.com/4750131/stephen-colbert-donald-trump-impersonator/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt157f59db34495a24/6988c3e497cdff84186b05de/colbertanthony.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: ColbertAnthony og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Stephen Colbert Made a Trump Impersonator Say Things Trump Would Never Say twitter:description: "My support Bill O'Reilly was wrong. Insensitive and totally stupid." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt157f59db34495a24/6988c3e497cdff84186b05de/colbertanthony.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Stephen Colbert Made a Donald Trump Impersonator Say Things Trump Would Never Say by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Apr 21, 2017 12:57 PM UTC  by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Apr 21, 2017 12:57 PM UTC Everyone has a [Donald Trump impression](http://time.com/4451557/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-impressions/), but no one has the President’s number like Trump’s most dedicated satirist, [Anthony Atamanuik](http://time.com/4527860/trump-machine-fortune-teller/). So when Stephen Colbert had the comedian on Thursday’s _Late Show_, the host seized the opportunity to feed him phrases that “Trump will never say, but we would like to hear.” “I was hoping you could say a few things that we would like to hear Trump to say, but he will never actually say,” Colbert said, and the game was on. “My support of Bill O’Reilly was wrong. Insensitive and totally stupid,” [Atamanuik](http://time.com/4746226/presidents-show-trump-university/) said with the appropriate combination of gestures, adding “I would like to officially announce that I will no longer be seeking a third term.” Big applause on that one. Atamanuik has been nailing his darkly funny Trump character that comes with the comedian’s activist bent since August 2015. Watch the full clip below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4750131/stephen-colbert-donald-trump-impersonator/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4750131/stephen-colbert-donald-trump-impersonator/"},"headline":"Stephen Colbert Made a Donald Trump Impersonator Say Things Trump Would Never Say","datePublished":"2017-04-21T12:57:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:43:01.692Z","description":"\"My support Bill O'Reilly was wrong. Insensitive and totally stupid.\"","url":"https://time.com/4750131/stephen-colbert-donald-trump-impersonator/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Comedy","Late Night Television","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt157f59db34495a24/6988c3e497cdff84186b05de/colbertanthony.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt157f59db34495a24/6988c3e497cdff84186b05de/colbertanthony.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"ColbertAnthony","caption":"","creditText":"","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/4750131/stephen-colbert-donald-trump-impersonator/","name":"Stephen Colbert Made a Donald Trump Impersonator Say Things Trump Would Never Say"}}]}] ```