How the Simpsons Predicted A Trump Presidency

On February 16, 2025  By newsroom   Topic: Trump-presidency

The Guardian points out to plots in The Simpsons and other entertainment who predicted a Trump presidency. It writes about a Simpsons episode aired 16 years ago:  


In 2000, Bart to the Future, an episode of the Simpsons in which Bart imagines his coming years, showed Lisa Simpson taking over as “America’s first straight female president” from an outgoing President Trump. “As you know,” she tells her team in the Oval Office, “we’ve inherited quite a budget crunch from President Trump.”

She asks how bad things have got, to be told the country is broke, as the previous regime invested in the nation’s children but “created a generation of ultra-strong super-criminals”.
 


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