Donald Trump Is Too Absurd Even For Veep, Insists Head Writer

Donald Trump’s attempts to become the President Of The United States have left many people across the world aghast. His divisive comments might have shocked millions, probably billions, but that didn’t stop him from being confirmed as the Republican candidate to become the 45th President Of The United States last week.

It’s like a sick joke that’s got way, way out of hand. And even the writers of ‘Veep’, the political comedy that’s aired in the US on HBO and in the UK on Sky Atlantic, have now admitted that they’re struggling to find the comedy in Trump’s candidacy.

Speaking to NPR ahead of last week’s Republican National Convention, David Mandel, who previously wrote on ‘Seinfeld,’ executive produced and directed ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm,’ before replacing Armando Ianucci as the showrunner of ‘Veep’ for the show’s fifth season, admitted that HBO would probably have fired him if he’d proposed a character as absurd as Trump.

“We at ‘Veep’ sort of joke that if we had tried to write a lot of this, we’d be, like, HBO would have, like, sort of fired us and replaced us with a different writing staff,” Mandel explained.

Erik Kenward, another writer on ‘Veep’, then added, “We struggle over every reality moment like, is this real? Would the president say that? Would someone say that to the president? And Trump has just blown that up.”

Mandel admitted that he is flabbergasted by what he’s seeing, insisting that the entire political landscape in America, including Hillary Clinton’s Democratic campaign, is the most peculiar that he’s ever witnessed

“It’s the strangest campaign of my life time,” he explained. “I’m 45 years old, and it’s definitely the strangest campaign ever. More so than ever before, the other party hates the other candidate with a fiery passion that I haven’t seen on this level. And at the same time, neither party loves their own candidate.”

It will be interesting to see if ‘Veep’ decides to adjust its already vulgar, offensive, but nevertheless hilarious tone and content in its already confirmed sixth season because of the impact that Donald Trump is having.

But with the show’s fifth season concluding with Selina Meyer booted out of office and replaced by Laura Montez, who has already brokered a legacy-making deal to free Tibet from China that’s likely to secure her the Nobel Peace Prize, we have the strange reality where the fake, television president on ‘Veep‘ seems more competent than at least one of the candidates actually running for office. Which is a scary, scary thought.

‘Veep’s’ fifth season recently came to an end, but we can expect its sixth to return around April, 2017. I know, I know - that’s excruciatingly far away.

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