Saturday Night Live’s James Austin Johnson gave the Tribeca Festival a taste, and analysis, of his celebrated stream-of consciousness Donald Trump impression. He often wings it.
“It wouldn’t feel like Trump if there wasn’t this queasy feeling in the audience of ‘what is he going to say?’ and so I have to improvise for the character to kind of come alive. So I’m throwing in stuff,” he said Saturday after a few presidential riffs that jumped from China to Japan to Korea to Carrie Underwood to Lady Gaga to Iran, delighting the audience after the world premiere of Josh
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