Inevitably, comparisons have been made on both sides of the aisle between Vice President Kamala Harris and Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ character Selina Meyer from HBO’s satirical comedy “Veep,” amid Harris’ likely rise to the top of the Democratic ticket in the election from 2024.
But Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is actually “the Selina-est candidate,” “Veep” showrunner David Mandel said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter published on Thursday.
And here’s why, according to Mandel: “Vain, concerned about his appearance, has a ridiculously better relationship with his body people than his own children, petty, vindictive, worried about his own money, doesn’t believe what he says, says what he also says. be elected.”
Mandel acknowledged the simple facts that Harris and the fictional Meyer were both women and were “exalted vice presidents.”
“But it has led to two kinds of reactions,” he lamented. One is from people using “Veep” memes to celebrate Harris’ likely rise, the other from “assholes” who are “using it as a simple way to insult her.”