Donald Trump isn’t an omnipotent being with superpowers, and he definitely wasn’t portrayed by Emmy winner Yahya Abdul-Mateen II in a critically acclaimed HBO series, but there are still similarities to be found between the current president and “Watchmen’s” Doctor Manhattan — if your mind is as creative and clever as “Veep” creator Armando Iannucci’s.In a Monday article for Intelligencer, one of New York Magazine’s brands, Inanucci wrote about the chaotic few days that followed Trump’s announcement that he had tested positive for the coronavirus.
Though much of his article was dedicated to recounting Trump’s actions following the president’s diagnosis — such as staging a motorcade outside his hospital — Iannucci also compared the president and his recent actions to projects such as HBO’s Chernobyl” and Iannucci’s own “The Death of Stalin” film.
As for “Watchmen,” the satirist noted that like Doctor Manhattan,
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