Aaron Sorkin: Trump isn’t ‘interesting’ enough for fictional TV

Don’t expect a President Trump-esque character in any reboot of “The West Wing,” says the show’s creator.

“It would look like dead air. I wouldn’t do it because I don’t find him to be a terribly interesting character,” Aaron Sorkin told Juju Chang of Trump in a preview clip from his Thursday interview on ABC’s “Nightline.”

“He is exactly what he looks like,” Sorkin said of Trump.

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“There’s no subtext. There’s no nuance. He only ever talks about two things: himself and his enemies. And that’s it,” the 56-year-old producer and “Molly’s Game” director added.

“It’s a character that you wouldn’t believe the character in a drama. He doesn’t have any of the qualities that you need to tell a story. There’s just no blood there.”

It’s not the first time Sorkin, a frequent critic of the commander in chief, has nixed the idea of a Trump-like figure. Last month, he called the president “a really dumb guy with an observable psychiatric disorder.” 

Actor Martin Sheen played fictional President Josiah Bartlet in the popular political drama “The West Wing.” 

Sorkin has flirted with a possible return of the series, which aired on NBC from 1999 to 2006. The Emmy Award-winner reportedly has a “standing offer” from the network to reboot “The West Wing,” which he told The Hollywood Reporter last year he “considers on occasion.”