HBO has confirmed that Veep will return for a sixth season on 16 April at 10:30pm, fresh from picking up DGA and SAG Awards.
I think we try and sort of take a longer view, like, what is this about?”
Showrunner David Mandel meanwhile, explained to Decider how parodying specific people and events will never work for the show as its scripts are written nearly a year prior to broadcast.
Cast member Timothy Simons (Jonah Ryan) has a pretty sobering answer to this though, telling IBT: “Day to day, I haven’t found a lot of stuff [that Trump has done] funny.”