Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Sam Richardson and David Mandel weigh in on Veep comparions to Trump's interview with Axios on HBO

The Hollywood Reporter

President Trump's bizarre interview with Jonathan Swan of Axios resulted in Veep becoming a trending topic on Twitter this morning. "God, I wish this was just a dumb show like ours," Louis-Dreyfus tweeted of the interview, while former showrunner Mandel added: "President Jon H Ryan would have only killed 100,000 Americans tops." Veep alum Sam Richardson also weighed in, tweeting: "Yes, this is like a scene from Veep. Except on Veep this scene would have been re-written after the table read, because a president being this stupid is too gaggy and unrealistic." In an interview today with The Washington Post, Mandel said of Trump's Veep-like behavior: "The honest answer is at this point, it’s almost a weekly occurrence. I’m almost bored by it at this point. Honest to gosh, this was new two years ago, the idea that occasionally they drifted near us. At the end of the day, this is why we ended the show. The stupidest, dumbest, craziest things we could think of to make a president and his staff say and do … I bow to my betters. We’re being outdone regularly. He’s stupider than a room full of the best comedy writers in Los Angeles can come up with, and it’s that simple."