Donald Trump was the reason for the show’s downfall in 2019.The 46-year-old starred as Dan Egan in the HBO comedy, which debuted in 2021, for seven seasons.“Trump killed ‘Veep,'” he said with a smile while speaking with Town & Country recently. “That was the joke amongst us when he was elected.
We literally had a meeting about it [with] David Mandel, who was our showrunner at the time. We were really priding ourselves [how] ‘Veep’ always cracked the joke before it actually happened.”“It was the opposite of ‘Law & Order’ — we weren’t ripping anything from the headlines.
We were writing gags, and then it would f – – king happen. And everyone was all like, ‘How did they predict it?'” he continued. “It got to the point where everything that was happening in politics around the 2016 election was so insane.
The concern was, well, now it looks like we’re just aping the insanity of what’s actually happening, which is never what we did before.” Trump was elected in 2016 and was the US president for four years.Although Scott said it was the right time to say goodbye to the series, he thinks “there’s even a greater need for a show” like it now.