Eric Jackman | The Best Impressions Of Donald Trump & Alex Jones In One Podcast | OAP #39
Chase Geiser is joined by Eric Jackman.
Eric Jackman is, without a doubt, the politically sharpest and funniest Donald Trump impersonator on the planet. His razor-sharp wit, combined with his up-to-the-minute grasp and in-depth knowledge of real political issues and popular culture put him miles ahead of other Trump impersonators. With Donald Trump's voice and mannerisms, without rehearsal, at any time, Jackman is able to stream a hilarious Trumpian monologue that combines politics, pop culture, and social commentary to the delight of anyone within earshot. Simply engage him on any topic, and you'll be treated to smart, side-splitting Trumpian oration.
Jackman, around home in Rindge NH, had been honing his Trump impersonation for years, among other comedic endeavors. He finally brought it into public view with a very big splash beginning in 2016, initially by turning up at Donald Trump rallies during the US presidential primary campaign. Sure enough, the president-to-be noticed Jackman, called him out, and had a great laugh with him. Suddenly, Jackman found himself being lauded by press from across the USA and Europe, and acclaimed as among the best Trump impersonators in the world by CBS News. See the Press page for a sampling.
Jackman began fielding requests to appear as Trump in comedy venues, on local talk shows, at mock debates, and at other events, garnering further press attention and acclaim. He also began accepting invitations to appear as Trump at corporate and other private events. Jackman is now heard as the voice of Trump for Fusion TV's animated shorts and appears on the show The Feed. His impersonation of Trump magnifies the essential qualities of Trump, and rings true. This creates great appeal to pro-Trump, anti-Trump, and Trump-neutral listeners, each agreeing that Jackman reflects Trump's essence with remarkable accuracy.
A true student of politics and pop culture, Jackman and his brother Mike also host an irregularly published podcast called Jackman Radio on which they interview guests and discuss the latest topics breaking in the American public consciousness. Jackman Radio launched its first live, public event in March, 2018. Jackman makes it a point to study politicians closely and has made the effort to meet and speak with many, a sampling of whom can be seen on the Photos page.
If you're looking for a hilarious, unique comedy and entertainment experience for your next event, look no further than Eric Jackman as President Trump! Having the uncanny ability to improvise on the spot or learn an entire speech, Jackman can customize the Donald for all audiences, persuasions and parties. With the distinction of being one of the only impersonators photographed with the real Trump (and getting the Donald's thumbs up), he continues to appear on television and news programs around the world, and perform at venues across America.
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I can't believe that they, I don't know if you saw what I kind of launched like a little baby campaign this weekend called hashtag you ban we block and like it sort of was inspired by um ryan dawson because it's like why the fuck did they block him i mean the dude's definitely he's definitely an edgy dude but he's not like a he's not by any means a bigot like kind of quite the opposite you know man no run um well and i was just go ahead oh sorry yeah no he goes hard in the paint um against
Israel and against Zionist interests and he's very honest about things kind of to a point where it's like just black and white and that hurts people's feelings and you know I can tell you a funny story how I had a live comedy show podcast all planned at a certain venue and that venue canceled my brother and I from performing there because they took issue with us having Ryan Dawson on our show before he's a guest really yeah which venue was that was it like a uh it was up here or something
it was up it was up here in New Hampshire um you know it's a small town area I don't want to like drag them through the mud and fling shit at them but um the bottom line was we had the show booked and this is a special we're putting out it's going through the second round of edits right now we hired a high-end professional film crew to come up and film it professionally we hired a sound team so we had all that in place and then the two weeks before the show the venue emailed my brother
we don't know who it was someone complained or someone took issue went through our guest we've been doing jackman radio for six years I've had dozens of guests on.
I've had Ron Jeremy on.
I've had fucking Roger Stone on, you know, just you name it, man.
Through the spectrum, you get it.
You get it with your guests.
So someone took issue and complained and said, Yeah, we have a problem with this Ryan Dawson guy.
We went on his website, anti-neoconreport.com.
We saw Confederate flags.
We saw him worshiping the Unabomber.
He's a Holocaust denier.
You know, X, Y, and Z, the tropes, the tropes in the sphere.
So that's that's the bullshit brush brushstrokes that he's painted with because he's a historian and he's a researcher and he talks about shit that is uh third rail kind of stuff.
And I don't, I don't know a lot about you know what he's looked into with World War II history.
He has talked about the access perspective of World War II.
Like why did the Japan bomb why did Japan bomb Pearl Harbor?
We discovered we had this ability to mimic our family members at holiday parties and make fun of them.
So that was like our first captive audience.
We didn't do impressions of our aunts and uncles, our grandparents.
I mean, my dad's family and my dad were all originally from Newfoundland, Canada.
So my grandfather sounded like a pirate, something between like a drunken Irish sailor and a pirate.
And I was fascinated by his accent.
So that's kind of one of the first guys I ever impersonated because I grew up hearing my dad, my uncles, impersonate him, saying, Barry, what the hell is wrong with you, Barry, you're a near-doel.
And I was just fascinated that a human sounded like that.
So that was like, you impersonate your family first, and then at school, we would impersonate our favorite teachers.
We would get their permission to go up in front of the whole school during talent shows and do their impressions in front of the whole school and all the staff.
And it just, people loved it and it went over well.
So that turned into making fun of politicians, impersonating politicians.
So impressions have always been part of our repertoire.
And we're both big into politics and acting and performing.
And we've had the Jack and Radio podcasts since 2015.
But yeah, so we've been doing Jackman Radio six years.
Roger Stone was a cool guest.
He phoned in.
I had Jesse Ventura call in, and then I actually did an in-person interview in New York City at a place called the Nighthawk Cinema in Brooklyn with Jesse Ventura for an hour.
One of the coolest days of my life.
I had an hour with him.
I could ask him anything I wanted.
He doesn't screen any questions, just a free-form chat.
And then later that day, I went to a David Icke seminar in New York City.
So correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't he believe that like the fucking spires and churches are like directing the energy during worship straight to the aliens?
But where he doesn't lose me, where he's right on, is he was talking about elite pedophilia in the very early 90s.
And Ted Heath, who was prime minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, serial pedophile, probably a child murderer, X, Y, and Z. David Icke had the balls to be a singular lone voice in the wilderness shouting about that.
And he was ultimately proven right about it, among other things.
He talked about Jimmy Saville, who's a record-breaking pedophile.
I had David, I interviewed him last year, but the video got deleted from YouTube.
I'd have to find it in its memory hold.
find it for you but he said what they what they delete it for just like like a slander or libel just like yeah it's just making accusations Yeah, it's just X, Y, and Z, all the same shit they say about Ryan Dawson.
But no, you know, David Icke was an interesting guy to talk to.
So, you know, I get this, the feeling about you, Chase, is that you talk to people and you don't necessarily agree with them on stuff or on everything, but you're open to having a dialogue and having an exchange and having a conversation.
So that's really been the point of Jackman Radio, why I have the podcast and why I've had on the various guests that I've had on.
It's just a lot of fun and I enjoy doing it and people have really enjoyed listening.
And yeah, like you said, you know, with this show, I try to have, it's hard to get the first people on because a lot of like super leftists don't want to come on because my shit tends to be like stereotypically right wing.
But I hang out with like libertarians almost more than anything.
And I'm not really a libertarian.
I believe like in more government than libertarians, but I'm close and I'm much closer to a libertarian than I am probably a Republican.
Sure.
But I want to hang out because damn, like if libertarians and Republicans work together, it would make a hell of a lot of sense because there's a lot of common road before that forks.
You know, like there's a lot of work we could get done together before our disagreements would even matter, you know?
Yeah, well, I think the big picture stuff, most Americans are on board.
But what happens is there's just so much gasoline put on these stupid cultural issues and shit that doesn't ultimately matter and divides us and distracts us, angers us, and keeps us, you know, taking our eye off the prize, which is that not only our country, but our world is run by gangsters and by criminals.
And they systematically use the laws, the courts, the criminal justice system, the prisons, the media, everything to fuck over the rest of us.
There's a set of laws for the super wealthy and the elite, and then there's the rest of us.
So if you kind of have that as your launch point and your starting point, you can find common ground with pretty much anybody.
1998, aside from an unbilled cameo and the Norm McDonald vehicle Dirty Work, Chris Farley's last movie credit is the Western comedy Almost Heroes with Matthew Perry.
The reason I brought up Billy Madison is I think that you and your brother should do a version of Parent Trap similar to Billy Madison, where you're like adults and you're forced to go to camp because you never went to camp when you were kids or something.
So Rosie like swished her hair and made fun of him.
And it was actually really funny.
It was a good impression.
You know, she did the mouth and Trump obviously saw it.
So Trump summoned Entertainment Tonight's cameras to his office at Trump Tower and proceeded to go on one of the greatest two-minute takedown tracks like in the history of all time.
So when you think about kitchen table issues, bread and butter issues, your mom wondering if she's going to pay her medical bills or eat dinner that night.
That's what I want you to think of.
And then Pantine Provy.
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I like all the young girls to wear Pantine Provy so I can smell it.
I mean, his family, Ryan Dawson has the goods and all the Bidens.
You've got the Biden crime family documentary, you know, for example, talks about Biden's brother being in getting contracts to rebuild Iraq after we destroyed him based on a war of lies that Biden did nothing to stop or even put debate forth in the Senate when he was chairman of the board, I think, didn't he?
Corey totally voted for it.
He helped Bush make it a reality.
And then his brother gets a nice millions of dollars to rebuild and be part of the grift.
So yeah, Biden's just another gangster, man, and they're trying to paint him as a humble old man who's just going to build back better, bring the country back from the brink of fascism.
Like, what do senators and reps, what do they make?
Like 175, the House of Reps and maybe 200 to be a senator or something.
Yeah, if you're going to do that job, which is probably one of the shittiest jobs ever, like what you have to go through to consistently get re-elected, who you have to deal with, what you have to put your family through.
I mean, there are a lot of other jobs you can make that kind of money for that are much less difficult and stressful.
So in order to make it worth it, I think these people just do all this shitty stuff, like, you know, use insider information to make stock bets.
They do these, you know, behind closed doors, you know, cigar room deals where it's like, all right, you know, we'll go to Iraq, but then, you know, my brother-in-law gets a contract to rebuild all the schools or whatever.
And that's like, that's the only reason it's worth it is because like no one would ever do that job just for 175 grand and a good conscience.
It's a matter of how you view and ask the question, why was he flying a fighter jet over in Vietnam in that country, dropping bombs on fucking poor people in rice patties?
So, you know, the other side of that coin, the person who shot his fucking jet down was a hero, you know?
Well, that was the thing about Trump that was so amazing is he never branded himself as this like perfect person.
So whenever trash came out against him, it was like, yeah, so like everybody, like when the Stormy Daniels ganglicor came out, everyone's like, of course he did.
Like, you know, he didn't brand himself like Romney.
If Romney would have had a Stormy Daniels story, that would have been the end of Romney, you know, because he's this perfect Mormon dude.
But everybody knows that Trump is just like, you know, a porn star bang and scrap dodging billionaire.
I was at a candidate thing at a library here in New Hampshire.
And each Democratic primary campaign had a representative that would speak for five minutes, make the pitch for their candidate, and then answer any questions.
So when I went up there, you know, I had all my Tulsi gear and was there to persuade people to support her or just talk about why I was supporting her.
And I started out with a joke.
I'm like, well, you know, we're the campaign that we're not as good looking as John Delaney, but, you know, I think we're a close second.
That's why we have giant billboards of our candidate here in New Hampshire.
And I got some left.
Or no, maybe I said we're not as good looking as Liz Warren.
I think that's what I said.
Yeah, Pocahontas.
Yeah, which we call her Grandma Oatmeal.
Jason Burmes.
Yeah, Jason Burmes came up with that nickname, Grandma Oatmeal, which is a great nickname for.
But I said, yeah, we don't have the best looking candidate like Warren, but I think we're a close second.
That's why we have our giant billboards.
Just some bullshit to cut the tension.
And like, you guys should not take this all so seriously, you know.
But no, yeah, people, well, I know politics is image and looks are important, but it's really at the core of who Tulsi is and what she represents, which is why I supported her and why I urged people to donate to her campaign and vote for her and support her because she was talking about real serious shit, man, that no one else in the race would even touch.
And she could get up in front of a national debate stage with 60 million people watching in prime time.
And yeah, her appearance with him on Rogan was awesome.
But no, Tulsi's, she's a badass man.
She's sharp, man.
She knows her stuff.
She has foreign policy cred.
You know, obviously serving in the military, she understands it inside and out, serving in Iraq as a combat veteran.
So she just, there's so many things about her that made her really legit and someone who I truly looked at who could walk into the Oval Office and with integrity, with knowledge, and with the credibility, be in charge, be the commander in chief.
The reason I liked her is because even though I don't agree with, she is a Democrat, like a gen, like a Democrat in the traditional sense, she's a genuine Democrat, not like a leftist, not a progressive, not a communist.
She does believe what she says and she walks the walk with it.
And we had a really diverse selection of people and voters show up to our town hall.
She did over 200 events here in New Hampshire over the course of a year.
And I'd introduced her at quite a few of them.
And you would have military veterans, you would have libertarians, real progressives, anti-war people, moderate people, and then just people who liked how poised she was and how dignified she was and her presence.
So I don't believe in like any of the supernatural stuff, but I still like the cultural aspects of the faith.
Yeah, I study the Bible and I think the stories have almost divinely inspired principles and value.
Yeah.
From like a Jordan Peterson intellectual sense.
And I believe in God in like a deist sense, but I'm not like stuck on Yahweh.
You know what I mean?
I'm not stuck on a specific, I just believe in like higher power, you know, and then that's like, that's where I stop.
So I would never consider myself an atheist, but I'm also not like somebody who like claims to believe that they know everything there is to know about God or the nature of God.
You know, like I tell people that I believe in God, but all I know about God is that he exists or all I believe about God is that he exists or it exists.
And that's like where it ends.
And so I wonder if like atheists, like sometimes sometimes I feel like atheists say that they don't believe in God and what they really mean is that they just don't believe in Yahweh.
I'm not saying, I can't say one way or the other 100% there is or isn't.
But my leaning is towards that, that there is no thing up in the sky.
There's no sky daddy watching us 24-7 that should be dictating morality and telling us how we ought to live and what our existence should be predicated upon.
And, you know, I view it through the lens of seeing how incredibly destructive organized religion has been for humanity and has been for the globe when looking at it through tribal lenses and all the conflicts that have sprung up over it, the continuing conflict with Israel and Palestine.
I come from a background of a Boston Irish Catholic family.
So both my parents had to go to, my dad was in Catholic school for a bit.
You know, he got beat up by nuns.
That's not my mom.
None your business.
You know, my mom lived in a Catholic orphanage for a year.
So, you know, you can imagine, man, what that was like for them as young kids.
And Boston was the epicenter of really when the story broke with the Catholic Church of all the abuse, the spotlight type stuff.
So I very much came up in that tradition being very weary of organized religion and how abusive it was to children and how we control people's lives.
And I'm not into shame.
I'm not into fear and guilt and dogma.
So I always kind of had that.
And, you know, my dad kept us away from religion.
He said as children, you know, he didn't want us to go to church, didn't force us.
And he said, when you guys are of a certain age, you can then decide if you want religion, if you want faith, if you want to believe Even God, you should decide for yourself.
I'm not going to put a label on you and call you some denomination or make you adhere to some kind of dogma.
So I'll always appreciate him for that.
But I'm far, man, from in my 20s, you know, I would want to argue with people and be nasty.
And I just don't see the point in arguing about it with people anymore.
I think you can be a great person who is religious and you could be a great person who's not religious.
I'm really worried, though, about what some of the radical evangelicals, the harm that they might be doing to sort of the Republican Party or just right-wing ism in general, because, you know, like what we saw with Brandy Love last week.
And I'm not just like making an effort to bring Brandy Love up over and over again.
But, you know, when you have people who agree with things like freedom, low taxes, Second Amendment, who want to vote for your candidate, and then you kick them out of a conference because, you know, they live a life that you don't approve of morally.
It's like, all right, you know, come on.
Like, are we doing more harm than good when we do stuff like this?
And I understand if, you know, people don't want a porn star to be like a role model for their kid, but I'm telling you right now, nobody becomes a porn star because they went to a fucking TP USA conference and a porn star was a VIP guest.
Well, they got these phones now, and you can friggin access donkey shows in Bulgaria if you want, if you're into that sort of thing.
But it's stupid, man.
Something that purports to extol the virtues of freedom and freedom of association and free to live your authentic life and be who you want to be to then throw her out of an event like that is just very hypocritical and I think immature and silly at the end.
But now that the stigma is melting away from it and it's pretty much widely available and legal and you can get it in all forms, I don't enjoy it anymore.
And I very rarely will do it.
If I'm around friends who have it and I've had a few pops and they just hand me a joint or a ball, I'll take a hit out of it.
But other than that, man, I'm in my 20s, I did it much more.
You ever done shrooms?
Oh, yeah.
I enjoy mushrooms.
I've done them probably, I don't know, half a dozen times in my life, and they're all really good experiences and have helped me help me deal with trauma.
If I didn't have my brother and my family, my dad has seven siblings who are all still alive.
He was one of eight.
So they were all there for it, man.
My sister, everyone pulled through in a big way, my friends.
But so I took some time after he passed away.
I knew that I wanted to do mushrooms again to kind of help me process his death and just get to a point where you have to live with it every day and accept that he's gone and go about your life and not stop growing as a human being after this life-changing event.
So I did him again, you know, with a couple of close people, and it was a great experience, man.
I released a lot of the sadness and the despair over it.
And, you know, I lived on the base of a beautiful mountain here in New Hampshire, world-famous mountain called Mount Menadnock.
And it was just a glorious summer day.
And the three of us sat out in the field all day, ate a bunch of mushrooms, listened to tunes, and just laughed.
And there were tears.
And it was a beautiful experience.
So I personally, you know, recommend it if you're going to be responsible about it.
You're so tired, man, and just sucked of all your energy and everything the next day.
I mean, one time I did him, the side effect was my stomach hurt from laughing, just laughing for seven hours, laughing to the point of tears at how absurd our whole deal was and how small we are and the whole scope of it.
So yeah, you go through all the range of emotions.
But I was sitting in my apartment and I was looking at the wall.
And of course, looking at like a blank wall can be actually pretty entertaining when you're on shrooms because you're hallucinating and seeing patterns and shit.
And I saw this like, it was almost like watercolor or ink, you know, just like this drawing being drawn on my wall.
It took maybe, I don't know, what felt like five minutes for it to be drawn.
I'm just watching it being drawn.
And at the end, I'm like, what the fuck is that?
And the next day, when I'm not on shrooms, I started like Googling, trying to figure out if it was like something that existed, the drawing I saw.
And it was a Zoroastrian symbol for spirit guide, which I had never seen.
