Veep creator Armando Iannucci compared his own film,The Death of Stalin, and acclaimed HBO dramasWatchmen and Chernobyl to President Donald Trump's handling of his COVID-19 diagnosisin a recent piece for the New York magazine vertical Intelligencer.
In his biting recap of the White House's actions and messaging around the medical treatment of "the Supreme Leader," the writer-directorcriticized the president's doctors, supporters and Trump himself for pushing a "vision of him defeating the virus" in the vein of dictators and authoritarians.
The Avenue 5 creator blasted Trump's medical team, which Dr. Sean Conley led, for only telling the media and American people "facts that suited a narrative of recovery." He then called the president's.