Ronald Knapp

• Ronald Knapp was an impersonator of Soviet Premiere Mikhail Gorbachev who famously pranked Donald Trump during a 1988 visit to New York City by Gorbachev. “If you see a man around town who looks like Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, he isn't. It is the look-alike character Ronald Knapp, who received considerable publicity last month in New York when publicity-seeking tycoon Donald Trump rushed from Trump Towers to greet the man he believed was the Soviet leader. Knapp is in town to visit some inaugural events and will probably fool other people.” (Washington Post, January 19, 1989)