A “Veep” Producer Thinks Donald Trump Is More Like Selina Meyer Than Kamala Harris — Here’s Why

Comparisons have inevitably been drawn on both sides of the aisle between Vice President Kamala Harris and Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ character Selina Meyer from HBO’s hit satirical comedy Veep amid Harris’ likely rise to the top of the Democratic ticket in the 2024 election.

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But Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is actually “the Selina-est candidate,” Veep showrunner David Mandel said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter published Thursday.

And here’s why, per Mandel: “Vain, worried about his looks, has a ridiculously better relationship with his body people than his own children, petty, vindictive, worries about his own money, doesn’t believe what he says, says whatever to get elected.”

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Mandel acknowledged the simple facts of Harris and the fictional Meyer both being women and “VPs being elevated.”

“But it’s prompted two kinds of response,” he lamented. One is from people using Veep memes to celebrate Harris’ likely ascendancy, the other by “assholes” who are “using it as a simple way of insulting her.”