President Donald Trump impressionist Matt Friend believes that Trump could be a really funny person if he wasn’t so busy trying to rip everyone apart over the slightest criticism.
“My feeling on Trump is, at least according to what [comedian] Bill Maher has said about him and what everybody has said about him, is that the guy is hilarious when you’re in person,” Friend told host Joanna Coles on The Daily Beast Podcast.
However, Friend and Coles agreed that a sense of humor rarely publicly rears its head in Trumpland when the MAGA figurehead is the butt of jokes.
Friend pointed out that, unfortunately for Trump, he is the “main character of the world right now,” which means he’s going to be consistently name-dropped in late-night monologues.
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