After The Simpsons precisely predicted Donald Trump‘s presidency, Armando Iannucci doesn’t need that smoke.
The Veep creator took to X to remind followers that his Emmy Award-winning HBO sequence (2012-2019) was purely fictional, regardless of perceived similarities to President Joe Biden‘s announcement that he’s dropping out of the 2024 presidential election and his endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris.
“Let’s remind ourselves that #Veep has already written a fictional model of this script .. Kamala *inherits* the precise presidency. Then runs. The electoral faculty is tied. The home vote is tied. Which implies the Senate has to decide on the tie breaking candidate. And that finally ends up with … JD Vance as POTUS (Nb that is DRAMA …)” wrote one fan.
Iannucci quoted the put up, including: “Don’t neglect we made all that up, although.”
Since Biden’s endorsement of Harris, loads of followers have taken to social media with memes stating the parallels to Julia Louis Dreyfus‘ titular character, Vice President Selina Meyer, within the hit political satire comedy.
After a number of followers shared a scene from the present of Selina saying to her workers that the president has determined to not run for a second time period and she or he’s working in his place, one particular person credited Iannucci with “persevering with to foretell our political actuality” in a put up.
“Nonetheless engaged on the ending,” Iannucci joked as he quoted the put up.
Iannucci had one final snicker as he posted a throwback picture of Dreyfus and Biden having a slow-mo stroll by means of the White Home in a clip from the 2014 White Home Correspondent’s Dinner.
Following Biden’s endorsement, Harris has secured sufficient pledged delegates in report time to win the Democratic nomination on the primary poll.
