Carrot Top Brings Out Fake Trump During Show—'Don't Want to Get in Trouble'
Comedian Carrot Top has shared video footage of himself welcoming a Donald Trump impersonator onto the stage at his show on the night of the presidential election.
Hours after polls closed across the U.S. on Tuesday night, Republican Trump was declared the winner following a hotly-contested race that saw Vice President Kamala Harris step in just months ahead of Election Day after President Joe Biden stepped down.
On Tuesday night, several hours before the result was known, Carrot Top, whose real name is Scott Thompson, performed at his longtime Las Vegas residency, giving the event a political theme as he introduced a Trump impersonator.
Carrot Top shared footage of the moment to his accounts on TikTok , Instagram , and X, formerly Twitter . Newsweek has contacted a representative of Trump via email for comment.
Captioning the video, Carrot Top wrote : "Throwback to two short days ago on Election Night with Trump aka John Di Domenico."
At the start of the clip, Carrot Top is seen telling the audience gathered at the Luxor Hotel & Casino's Atrium Showroom: "I don't want to get in trouble. I'm a comic—I've got to be careful. Trump could have me... I could be done. He can cancel me at any second."
Comedian John Di Domenico stepped out in character as Trump, carrying a McDonald's bag. "Look at this crowd," Di Domenico's Trump said of the audience, in apparent reference to the president-elect's comments on his rally crowd sizes.
"I love when women stand for me," the impersonator said, referring to such actions as a "standing ovulation."
After declaring that he "just got in from Mar-a-Lago," Di Domenico's Trump told Carrot Top that he "brought some facts," he said before ushering the audience's attention to a mock election results map that showed all but one state going Republican.
"It's a high MAGA system of pressure," comedian quipped, in character as Trump.
" CNN has it way differently," Carrot Top playfully challenged, before showing a mock election map that showed all but one state in the U.S. going to the Democrats .
"What the f***," the Trump impersonator exclaimed in response. "CNN—terrible people, like the Chinese. Terrible people."
"You're going to get me fired," Carrot Top said, prompting the impersonator to quip: "Don't worry, I'll get you rehired."
Di Domenico's Trump then urged the audience to visit Trump Tower, where he declared they "have the wettest water."
As the bit came to an end, Di Domenico's Trump introduced his "buddy," an impersonator dressed as Kim Jong Un , who stood up from his seat in the audience and waved to the crowd.
After Di Domenico's Trump left the stage with a collection of golf clubs, Carrot Top told the audience: "Now I'm gonna get canceled—f***!"
"I'll never be [canceled]," the comedian continued. "I'm Carrot Top, b******. I ain't going anywhere... I mean... I might disappear and s***."
While Carrot Top joked about the possibilities of falling foul of the president-elect, fellow comedian Kathy Griffin, an outspoken Trump critic, faced backlash after posing with the severed head of an effigy of the then president in 2017. She said that her decision to pose with the head had damaged her career .
Trump himself was a prominent voice in the backlash against Griffin, writing on X at the time: "Kathy Griffin should be ashamed of herself. My children, especially my 11-year-old son, Barron, are having a hard time with this. Sick."
Griffin's gory image depicting Trump, which was taken by celebrity photographer Tyler Shields, sparked a widespread outcry, leading to the Suddenly Susan star issuing a public apology.
She later retracted her apology, saying during an appearance on ABC 's The View in 2018: "I take the apology back. F*** him. I'm not holding back on this family. This family is different. I've been through the mill."
"People thought I was ISIS ," she continued. "When my mother called—she watches Fox News and thinks it's real and thinks Bill O'Reilly is on vacation—that day, as crazy as it was, I was in a ball, sobbing, everything's over[...]I had to spend two hours convincing my mom I hadn't been recruited by Al-Qaeda ."
"My mom got death threats in her retirement village, and my sister got death threats in her hospital bed, and I lost her to cancer—that's why I shaved my head," Griffin added. "That's how vicious it can be."
