--- title: Veep Creator: Donald Trump Will Be ‘Worse' Than Imagined description: 'Veep' creator Armando Iannucci is the latest celebrity to speak out against President-elect Donald Trump. canonical: https://time.com/4633503/veep-creator-donald-trump-worse-imagine/ author: Abigail Abrams article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-12T20:48:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-31T10:36:40.283Z article:section: Politics og:title: 'Veep' Creator: Donald Trump Will Be ‘Worse' Than Imagined og:description: He is just the latest celebrity to speak out og:url: https://time.com/4633503/veep-creator-donald-trump-worse-imagine/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3f74cc65f3fa1865/6988b5620a4a225a199cc8ac/veep-creator-armando-iannucci-donald-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: BFI Screen Epiphanies: Armando Iannucci og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'Veep' Creator: Donald Trump Will Be ‘Worse' Than Imagined twitter:description: He is just the latest celebrity to speak out twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3f74cc65f3fa1865/6988b5620a4a225a199cc8ac/veep-creator-armando-iannucci-donald-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _Veep_ Creator: Donald Trump Will Be ‘Worse Than You Dared Imagine’ > Sponsored content. 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Whitby—Getty Images by [Abigail Abrams](https://time.com/author/abigail-abrams/) ## Abigail Abrams Jan 12, 2017 8:48 PM UTC _Veep_ creator Armando Iannucci offered Americans a bleak prediction on Thursday. “America, you do realise it’s going to be an awful lot worse than you dared imagine?” the former HBO showrunner tweeted, referring to the impending inauguration of Donald Trump. > [](https://twitter.com/Aiannucci/status/819493589461925888) Many celebrities have reacted strongly to Trump’s surprise win of the 2016 presidential election. Meryl Streep used her [Cecile B. DeMille Award acceptance speech](http://time.com/4628072/golden-globes-2017-meryl-streep-donald-trump-speech/?iid=sr-link4) at the Golden Globes this week to call out Trump and encourage her fellow artists to support the [Committee to Protect Journalists](https://www.cpj.org/). And even before Trump won in November, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, star of Iannucci’s _Veep_, weighed in on the political climate. She [told TIME](http://time.com/4308891/julia-louis-dreyfus-time-100-gala/) last April that while her show is a comedy, it “is not a parody” of politics. “We create situations that are plausible,” she said. Iannucci himself has also spoken out about politics in the past. In December, he wrote an [opinion piece](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/04/brexit-donald-trump-post-truth-confusion-contradiction-political-bubbles) for the _Guardian_ about the similarities between the climates that allowed for Trump to win and for UK citizens to vote to exit the European Union. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4633503/veep-creator-donald-trump-worse-imagine/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4633503/veep-creator-donald-trump-worse-imagine/"},"headline":"Veep Creator: Donald Trump Will Be ‘Worse Than You Dared Imagine’","datePublished":"2017-01-12T20:48:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T10:36:40.283Z","description":"He is just the latest celebrity to speak out","url":"https://time.com/4633503/veep-creator-donald-trump-worse-imagine/","keywords":["Donald Trump","Veep","Brexit","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3f74cc65f3fa1865/6988b5620a4a225a199cc8ac/veep-creator-armando-iannucci-donald-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Abigail Abrams","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/abigail-abrams/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3f74cc65f3fa1865/6988b5620a4a225a199cc8ac/veep-creator-armando-iannucci-donald-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"BFI Screen Epiphanies: Armando Iannucci","caption":"BFI Screen Epiphanies: Armando Iannucci","creditText":"Tim P. 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