Donald Trump was the reason for the show’s downfall in 2019.The 46-year-old starred as Dan Egan in the HBO comedy, which debuted in 2021, for seven seasons.“Trump killed ‘Veep,'” he said with a smile while speaking with Town & Country recently. “That was the joke amongst us when he was elected. We literally had a meeting about it [with] David Mandel, who was our showrunner at the time.