With Vice President Kamala Harris becoming the new Democratic front-runner after President Biden suddenly dropped out of the race on Sunday, her coconut tree meme has resurfaced and gone viral, with members of her own party getting in on the action.
“It’s been a wild thing to witness. Viewership went up something insane like 350 percent,” series star Julia Louis-Dreyfus , 63,
“But he forgot to open the flue,” Harris added with a laugh. “So Secret Service was like, ‘Ma’am, you cannot go back to your office,’ because there was smoke everywhere. But it was the sweetest gesture.”The next day, on July 22, the first season of “Veep” had 2.2 million minutes viewed – in a big jump from 486,000 minutes of viewership the previous day, according to entertainment data company Luminate.
In Season 2 of “Veep,” it’s revealed that the President won’t run for reelection, and that Selina will run. , “There are two types of people doing Veep memes right now: There are people really enjoying Selina’s moment of telling her staff that she’s running for president; there’s a joy there that’s fun and nice and celebratory.”
“It’s that double-edged sword of, yeah, of course I want to come back. I loved every second of it. I loved that cast. I loved what we did. But, can you imagine? We’re right back to imagining if we were trying to film a season right now and all of this was going on,” he said.
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