New York Daily News

Fake Trump: It’s de Blahs!

- BY ERIN DURKIN

MAYOR DE BLASIO earned a new nickname Saturday night while hamming it up with a Donald Trump impersonat­or at the Inner Circle show.

“I’m gonna call you ‘the boring’ because that’s what you are,” Trump, played by a deadon Anthony Atamanuik, told de Blasio in a mock press conference.

“We’ve been here for two minutes and you’ve already put everyone to sleep. It’s like talking to a seven-foot tall ambien.”

The pair engaged in an oddball exchange that featured several witty one-liners from The Donald.

Soon after de Blasio brought up his Brooklyn roots, Trump vowed to build a wall along the Manhattan border and make Kings County pay for it.

“We’ve got a lot of bad hipsters coming in from Brooklyn,” Trump quipped.

The annual charity event, held this year at the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel, is the City Hall equivalent of the White House Correspond­ents Dinner.

Earlier in the night, de Blasio starred in a skit that saw him go undercover at a Williamsbu­rg bar to find out how New Yorkers really feel about him.

Ben Stiller added star power in a video message poking fun at de Blasio’s penchant for mishandlin­g animals and eating pizza with a fork.

The night featured several bits needling President Trump.

To the tune of “Oklahoma!” the so-called “basket of deplorable­s” chorus sang a song called “Mar-A-Lago.”

“Where he’ll con the suckers, underpay the waiters. Never pay no taxes, greasing up the haters,” the song went. “Mar-A-Lago, where he gets more orange in the sun. Lets him feel real yuge, he takes refuge, having all these morons kiss his buns!”

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