‘Billionaire Donald’ rooting for Trump
Canadian, who works as impersonator of U.S. president, hopes Trump wins and COVID loses
LONDON, ONT. — It takes Donald Rosso four minutes to turn into Donald Trump.
The 63-year-old from London, Ont., is one of several people around the world who work as impersonators of the United States president.
Rosso says his features are so similar to the real deal, he hardly puts in any effort.
“It’s terrific,” says Rosso, who goes by the stage name Billionaire Donald.
Eleven years younger than the actual Trump, Rosso says he’s just an inch shorter and weighs about the same — 240 pounds. And although his hair is thicker, his natural blond mane can be easily made to look like Trump’s famous comb-over.
“My hands are just significantly bigger,” Rosso adds with a laugh.
About four years ago, Rosso sold some juice bars he owned in Canada and was living in Mexico with his wife when he got into a bad motorcycle accident.
He says when money began getting tight, he woke up one morning with one of the most magnificent, terrific and greatest ideas he has ever had.
“We hung up sheets in the bathroom, and I gave a camera to my wife and she started taking pictures and put them on this website. And I became Billionaire Donald.”
About a month later, Rosso got a call from New York to be in a parody movie of the 1988 hit “Big” starring Tom Hanks. The movie was called “Yuge.”
From there, he says, his career took off.
And he has been all over the United States attending Trump rallies, Republican conventions and even a Valentine’s dinner in Detroit, where he met adult film actress Stormy Daniels just as she filed a lawsuit against Trump.
The lead-up to Tuesday’s U.S. election would have been even busier for Rosso had it not been for the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rosso says he hopes Trump wins the election and, once the border reopens, he’ll be back in business.