Did 'The Simpsons' Predict a Donald Trump Presidency?

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Did 'The Simpsons' Predict a Donald Trump Presidency?
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❌ Nope. But Donald Trump had flirted with the idea of a presidential run at least seven years before his 2016 bid. And the series did feature a joke about him becoming president in a 2000 episode entitled “Bart to the Future.'

had made some eerily accurate predictions about future events began circulating via social media. Most notable among those predictions was a clip purportedly taken from a 2000 episode that showed business magnate Donald Trump announcing his candidacy for President of the United States:

I want people to realize the synchronicity here and all the connections. This was put out in 2000. Fifteen years ago. Fifteen years ago. Now this is happening.

The animated series did feature a joke about Donald Trump’s becoming president in a 2000 episode entitled “Bart to the Future,” but since Trump had been with the idea of making a presidential run since at least as far back as 1999, such a “prediction” wasn’t as prescient as it might seem in retrospect:-related prediction theory was floated on 9 November 2016, a day after Trump won the presidential election, holding that the show had correctly predicted the 2016 electoral vote map:

This screenshot of Mr. Burns and a dog kneeling in front of an electoral map is real, but it has little to do with Donald Trump — it was taken from a 2012 clip in which the greedy billionaire of Springfield endorsed Republican candidate Mitt Romney:screenshot is being compared to an electoral map that does not match the genuine map of the 2016 presidential election.

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