*By Conor White* The masterminds of "The President Show," funnymen Anthony Atamanuik and Adam Pally, may have their own series on Comedy Central, but if they had their way, the show (and perhaps the political present) wouldn't exist in the first place. "By joking about it, it relieves some of the tension," Pally said Wednesday in an interview on Cheddar. "But I think we both feel that if we didn't have to do this show, we wouldn't." "A President Show Documentary: The Fall of Donald Trump" is a "mockumentary"-style special edition of Atamanuik's and Pally's limited series that parodies the Trump administration. Atamanuik began impersonating Trump just after he announced his candidacy in 2015. The comedian told Cheddar that while the show makes people laugh, it also exposes some of the country's darkest political realities. "We show it for what it is," Atamanuik said. "\[It's\] is a very dark period in American history that Trump is a symptom of ー he is not the cause." While "Saturday Night Live" tackles headlines every week, Atamanuik and Pally (who portrays Donald Trump, Jr.) take a more personalized approach to their material. "We're trying to get inside the heads of the people in this administration," Pally said. "And act it out through their emotions and not so much through the news, because we don't have the luxury of being on every week." "Our broad strokes are to sort of take apart the personality and the machine behind what makes Trump and our government sort of operate," Atamanuik added. Atamanuik has been impersonating the president for about three years now and says he has received countless death threats from Trump supporters. Still, the comedian has maintained both his sense of humor and his broader point of view. "The United States is becoming Jonestown," he said, referencing the group of over 900 people that committed mass suicide in Guyana as part of a cult in 1978. "You have a cult that's in charge of the country, and cult followers are out of their mind." For full interview [click here](https://cheddar.com/videos/lights-camera-presidency).
