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

Washington Post logoAlmost 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.

Trump actually doesn’t appear to understand how bad the pandemic is

Washington Post logoPresident Trump came prepared, or so it seemed.

When he sat down for an interview with Axios’s Jonathan Swan last week, Trump held a number of loose sheets of paper, each with a graph that, he clearly believed, showed how well the United States has done in combating the coronavirus pandemic. He had a graph showing the number of tests completed in the United States, for example, a soaring line rising above other countries tallying the tens of millions that have been conducted over time. Another had a simple bar chart, four colored rectangles demonstrating his administration’s success.

These were the emperor’s clothes, and he was proud of them. But Swan, given one of the few opportunities for a non-sycophant to interview the president, revealed them for what they were. Trump was left fumbling, unable to rationalize his repeated claims that all was well. Because, of course, it isn’t. Continue reading.

Watch Trump’s ’jaw-dropping’ interview with Axios on HBO

AlterNet logoPresident Donald Trump was interviewed by Axios reporter Jonathan Swan and the clip aired Monday evening on HBO.

There were a number of eyebrow raising exchanges.

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