THE SIMPSONS PREDICTED DONALD TRUMP'S PRESIDENTIAL VICTORY 16 YEARS AGO AS A *WARNING TO AMERICA* (VIDEO)

  Creators saw it as being an 'insane vision' of a future America

 

The Simpsons creators predicated that Donald Trump would be president 16 years ago, but only as a warning to Americans.

In an episode which aired back in 2000, Lisa becomes President of the United States, talking over from ‘President Trump’.

“We’ve inherited quite a budget crunch from President Trump,” she says while sitting in the Oval Office.

Simpsons writer Dan Greaney recently told The Hollywood Reporter that the episode was meant to show a vision of the country ‘going insane’.

 ‘It was a warning to America,” he said. “That just seemed like the logical last stop before hitting bottom. 

“It was pitched because it was consistent with the vision of America going insane.

 "What we needed was for Lisa to have problems that were beyond her fixing, that everything went as bad as it possibly could, and that's why we had Trump be president before her."

 
Show creator Matt Groening told The Guardian: “We predicted that he would be president back in 2000 – but (Trump) was of course the most absurd placeholder joke name that we could think of at the time, and that’s still true.

"It’s beyond satire."

The world awoke on Wednesday to discover that Groening’s ‘insane’ vision of a future American had in fact become reality as Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton in the US elections to become President of the United States.