Many thought Trump’s Axios interview felt like ‘Veep.’ The showrunner says, ‘We’re being outdone regularly.’

Almost as soon as President Trump’s tense interview with Axios’s Jonathan Swanaired Monday night, Twitter accounts started comparing it to HBO’s political satire “Veep.”

“It’s like an episode of Veep but real,” tweeted Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan.

“’Oh my god it’s just like VEEP!’ I shouted as I plunged to my death,” tweetedcomedian and actor Billy Eichner.

“Yes, this is like a scene from Veep. Except on Veep this scene would have been rewritten after the table read, because a president being this stupid is too gaggy and unrealistic,” tweeted Sam Richardson, who portrayed the honest-to-a-fault Richard Splett on that very show, which ended last year. Continue reading.