Donald Trump’s Presidential Transition Drama Is Coming to a TV Near You
The second season of the docuseries created by a longtime Tucker Carlson producer will pull back the curtain on the early days of Trump’s second term.
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The behind the scenes of Donald Trump’s transition to the White House will be captured by TV cameras.
The new docuseries will be a follow-up to Art of the Surge: The Donald Trump Comeback, which detailed the last several months of Trump’s campaign for president and aired during the week leading up to the election, according to Mediaite.
Like the first season, the new series will be created by Justin Wells, a longtime producer for the right-wing pundit and Trump ally Tucker Carlson.
It will pick up where the prior show left off, Wells explained in a statement to Mediaite.
“In Season Two, we’re bringing Americans as close as they can get to President Trump for his final month of campaigning, throughout election day, backstage on election night and now as he builds a team and heads to Washington for the inauguration,” he said. “There’s more ‘Art of the Surge’ on the way.”
Wells is a longtime producer for Tucker Carlson, whose network initially distributed the first Trump docuseries.
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Mediate reported that an anonymous source close to Trump predicted that his second term in the White House will be a “reality show,” adding that he would “cast” his administration’s team to have on-screen appeal.
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The first series was initially distributed on the Tucker Carlson Network and X but was eventually picked up by Apple TV, where it ranks second on the charts behind Yellowstone.
Another inside Trump source reportedly told Mediaite that there is interest from many outlets in distributing the new series.
“All the big players are definitely interested,” the insider said. “For linear it’s an opportunity to break through with non-traditional news programming that feels more like a TV show that could drive an audience, and unique perspective and access that’s never been seen in any presidential campaign.”
The source predicted that the new series would be “an opportunity to acknowledge more than half the country would like to consume this content. And the show is not even political. It shows you how stuff happens behind the scenes. So even if someone hated Trump, it’s an education on how all this came to be a week ago.”
Wells was the executive producer for Carlson’s show on Fox News, but left the network after the star was fired in April 2023. Since then, he has consulted for Carlson’s new media endeavors and launched his own production company, Ashokan Studios, which produces the Trump docuseries.
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