Simpsons writer reveals how he predicted Donald Trump's victory years back

New York: As Donald Trump pulled off a stunning victory in the US presidential polls, an episode of The Simpsons from the year 2000 started doing the rounds on the internet as it showed Donald Trump as president and also predicted his escalator entry accurately.

A day after the surprising result, the writer of the show has come out to reveal his exact thoughts behind the predictions made through the episode titled ‘Bart to the Future’. Dan Greaney told The Independent that, “It was a warning to America, “That just seemed like the logical last stop before hitting bottom. It was consistent with the vision of America going insane. What we needed was for Lisa to have problems beyond her fixing, that everything went as bad as it possibly could, and that’s why we had Trump be president before her.”

The episode showed Lisa Simpson being elected to the oval office after Donald Trump had ruined the economy and the writer also mentioned that back then Trump was still a over the top lovable character, but there wasn’t the darkness displayed through his Islamophobia and ideas about the border wall.

Meanwhile the show's executive producer James L Brooks expressed his shock without mincing his words on Twitter.

 

While the social media is talking about this prediction, it’s not the first thing that Simpsons got right.

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