He has a “yuge” following.
Trump impersonator Bob DiBuono is getting more gigs now that the previous president is out of office — and claims business has doubled since he announced his 2024 run.
“People miss him and other people want him back so badly that when he wasn’t in the general public eye, it was like, ‘Get Bob DiBuono to indicate up,’” the standup comedian told The Post.
The Clifton, Latest Jersey, resident gets hired for corporate events, private parties, and Republican fundraisers — and said he does as many as three per week.
“I may very well be at a Hasidic event in Brooklyn one night after which I’m in Long Island the subsequent night for a bunch of blue-collar guys that love him,” DiBuono, 47, said.
“Ninety-five percent of the those who hire me are Republican and so they actually need to have fun Trump.”
Essentially the most he ever made for an appearance was $30,000 — when he was flown out to Florence, Italy, by an American doctor to perform for his wife’s birthday, together with singer Adam Lambert and an Elvis impersonator.
The comic began working on his Trump impression in 2015 when he was a novice pol running for president, and it took 4 months to perfect it.
“I’ve watched every interview, every rally,” he recalled. “It took me some time because I couldn’t do it. . . .It was too Brooklyn-y and hard guy.”
He’s since been on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and “Comedy Central.” During a Presidents’ Day appearance on “The View” in 2017, comedian Darrell Hammond, who plays Trump on “SNL,” complimented his work. “He goes, ‘You really think like him.’”
In 2017, he was asked to tour with rappers Kendrick Lamar and YG in 18 cities.
“Before I walked on stage at one in every of the last shows of the tour, I’d had people saying, ‘Yo, you’re gonna catch a bullet.’” he recalled. “They were indignant.”
It’s hard playing Trump — and he has to take care of the backlash.
“People walk out, people give me the finger … a girl crying once,” he explained.
“I’m sitting there with a wig on and makeup — I’m not him — and she or he was crying and calling me a rapist.”
DiBuono has taken his impression to the movie screen, just completing the comedy “Can’t Let It Go!” which is about in Latest York the day before the 2016 election.
He’s also on Cameo — where he charges $165 per Trump video — and gets 10 requests weekly.
“At one point during COVID, I used to be doing 30 to 50 per week,” he said.
One memorable event he performed at was Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski’s engagement party in 2018.
“I got a call … they were like, ‘You’re going to indicate up as Trump because Joe hates Trump. They was once friends and now they hate one another,’” he explained.
The guest list included Bill de Blasio, Chuck Schumer, Al Sharpton, Donny Deutsch, Martha Stewart, and John Kerry.
“The one two people within the room laughing were Al Sharpton and Donny Deutsch,” he said.