--- title: Trump and Macron Dandruff Meeting turned into Veep video description: Veep star Julia Louis-Dreyfus loved the Veep style mash-up of Trump and Macron. canonical: https://time.com/5254186/trump-macron-veep-video/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-04-25T16:44:12.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:52:25.648Z og:title: Someone Turned Trump and Macron's Meeting Into a Veep Video og:description: Veep star Julia Louis-Dreyfus loved the mash-up og:url: https://time.com/5254186/trump-macron-veep-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt79cf03c3296dc63c/69892e97ab6d7714bb6b2779/rtx5xbdw.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3500 og:image:height: 1969 og:image:alt: U.S. President Trump meets with French President Macron at the Oval Office at the White House in Washington og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Someone Turned Trump and Macron's Meeting Into a Veep Video twitter:description: Veep star Julia Louis-Dreyfus loved the mash-up twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt79cf03c3296dc63c/69892e97ab6d7714bb6b2779/rtx5xbdw.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Someone Turned Trump and Macron's Meeting Into a _Veep_ and Julia Louis-Dreyfus Loved It > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Apr 25, 2018 4:44 PM UTC  French President Emmanuel Macron looks on as U.S. President Donald Trump flicks a bit of dandruff off his jacket during their meeting in the Oval Office in Washington, April 24, 2018. French President Emmanuel Macron looks on as U.S. President Donald Trump flicks a bit of dandruff off his jacket during their meeting in the Oval Office in Washington, April 24, 2018. Kevin Lamarque—Reuters by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Apr 25, 2018 4:44 PM UTC French President Emmanuel Macron’s meeting with President Donald Trump [during the French leader’s official state visit to Washington D.C.](http://time.com/5252474/president-trump-praises-u-s-french-alliance-after-meeting-with-president-macron/) naturally became an online obsession. In one breezy moment, Trump brushed something off the French leader’s suit jacket, saying, “We have a very special relationship; in fact, I’ll get that little piece of dandruff off. We have to make him perfect — he is perfect.” While Melania Trump’s [wide-brimmed white hat](http://time.com/5252421/melania-trump-hat-reactions-memes/) has captured the internet’s attention, the moment between Trump and Macron earned itself a brilliant mash-up. Twitter user (and _Mother Jones_ magazine digital editor) James West turned the interaction into a closing credit bit on the TV show [_Veep_](http://time.com/4930772/veep-hbo-season-7-last/)_,_ a show filled with comical political interactions. And brushing “dandruff” off a state leader is straight out of [the Selina Meyer playbook](http://time.com/4837229/selina-meyer-imperfect-woman/). > [](https://twitter.com/jameswest2010/status/988808306868326402) The combination is decidedly perfect. So perfect, in fact, that the show’s Emmy-winning star Julia Louis-Dreyfus weighed in on Twitter expressing her love for the mash-up. > [](https://twitter.com/OfficialJLD/status/988854116792201217) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5254186/trump-macron-veep-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5254186/trump-macron-veep-video/"},"headline":"Someone Turned Trump and Macron's Meeting Into a Veep and Julia Louis-Dreyfus Loved It","datePublished":"2018-04-25T16:44:12.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:52:25.648Z","description":"Veep star Julia Louis-Dreyfus loved the mash-up","url":"https://time.com/5254186/trump-macron-veep-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","politics","viral","Donald Trump","Veep","Julia Louis-Dreyfus","Emmanuel Macron"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt79cf03c3296dc63c/69892e97ab6d7714bb6b2779/rtx5xbdw.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt79cf03c3296dc63c/69892e97ab6d7714bb6b2779/rtx5xbdw.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"U.S. President Trump meets with French President Macron at the Oval Office at the White House in Washington","caption":"U.S. President Trump meets with French President Macron at the Oval Office at the White House in Washington","creditText":"Kevin Lamarque—Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5254186/trump-macron-veep-video/","name":"Someone Turned Trump and Macron's Meeting Into a Veep and Julia Louis-Dreyfus Loved It"}}]}] ```