On May 30, 2018, a trailer for the additional seven episodes of season one was released. On December 18, 2017, Showtime released the first teaser trailer for the series.
However, Trump lost reelection, and the series was therefore not renewed, with Colbert and the team moving to other projects. Anthony Fauci, and Cartoon Andrew Cuomo.Ĭolbert said during the 2020 presidential election that if Trump won a second term, the series would be renewed for a fourth season. On July 29, 2020, Showtime announced in a video that the show would be returning on Septemwith the second half of Season 3, featuring new characters, such as Cartoon Jill Biden, Cartoon Dr. On January 26, 2020, the first part of the third season was aired, consisting of ten more episodes. On January 22, 2019, it was announced that Showtime had renewed the series for a second season consisting of ten episodes. The episode was scheduled to air on Novemand expected to feature appearances from the cartoon versions of Vladimir Putin, Rudy Giuliani, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama. On August 22, 2018, it was announced that Showtime had greenlit a midterm elections themed television special from the series titled "Our Cartoon President: Election Special 2018". On May 30, 2018, it was announced that the additional seven episodes of season one would premiere on July 15, 2018. This order would bring the first season total of episodes up to seventeen. On March 8, 2018, Showtime announced that they were ordering an additional seven episodes of the series that are set to air during the summer of 2018. On December 18, 2017, it was announced that the series would premiere on February 11, 2018. On July 27, 2017, Showtime announced that it had greenlit an animated series based on the sketches, with Colbert, Matt Lappin and Chris Licht as executive producers. In their pitch to Showtime, Luecke and Lappin described the potential series as a look "behind the scenes at the White House" and that their goal would be to "produce it as quickly as we possibly could so that we could begin to keep up with the news cycle." Development įollowing the online success of the sketches, Late Show showrunner Chris Licht suggested to Tim Luecke and Matt Lappin that they develop the concept into its own television series. The character was also featured in an animated short during Colbert's election night special for Showtime. The sketches used Adobe Character Animator to allow Colbert to interact with the character in real-time. The series is a spin-off from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, which, since 2016, had featured a series of sketches featuring a cartoon caricature of Trump designed by Tim Luecke and voiced by Brian Stack. See also: List of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert sketches § Donald Trump Kate Villa as Amy Klobuchar and Elena Kagan.Matthew Piazzi as Jim Acosta and George Stephanopoulos.