Speaker Mike Johnson drops a Trump impression, and the audience can't stop laughing

House Speaker Mike Johnson left a crowd in splits after mimicking Donald Trump in a public appearance last week. Speaking at the 15th annual Family Leadership Summit in Des Moines, Iowa, Johnson jokingly discussed the prospect of getting his first tattoo done, and he did so by copying the President's mannerisms.

Recalling a conversation he had with the President at the Oval Office about getting a tattoo, Johnson channelled his inner Trump, gesturing with his hands, and quoted the President's response: "That's great, Mike. No tattoos." The Speaker also mimicked the President as he recalled a moment Trump shared with his kids. "He's told my sons three or four times, 'No alcohol, no drugs, no tattoos.' It's a good start," he said at the 26th minute of his 30-minute speech, inviting laughter from the audience. 

This is not the first time Johnson has copied the President. In fact, he had become known for his Trump mimicry and said that it was a great skill to have to make people laugh in a tense situation. "We try to be lighthearted, especially in these really tense times," he had said in 2025, as per The Daily Beast. "When you can drop a Trump impression in the middle of the tension, everybody kind of laughs a little bit and lightens up. It turns out to be a great tool."

Johnson pays tribute to John Quincy Adams

At the Family Leadership Summit, the Speaker, who said that he did not have any tattoos, claimed that if he got a tattoo, it would be a quote by former American President John Quincy Adams. Johnson spoke about how Adams served in the House of Representatives after being President, and that he pushed relentlessly to pass a resolution to end slavery, only for it to be rejected every single time. When asked why he was still pushing the resolution despite it failing so many times, Adams's response inspired Johnson.

"He (President Adams) looked at him (the person who asked the question) without hesitation and said, 'Young man, duty is ours, results are God's.' I love that so much," he said. Johnson also narrated a story of how former President Adams suffered a stroke while urging Americans at the time not to push slavery into the newly acquired western territories, and passed away after two days.

"The moral of the story is obvious. Duty is ours, results are God's. We don't know when the fruit will be borne from the seeds that we have planted. And God does not hold us responsible for the results, but he does hold us responsible to be faithful in our duty," he said.