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Jan 23, 2020 · The Simpsons predicted the future once again when Donald Trump was elected president of the United States. Here's which episode holds the prediction.
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Jul 15, 2024 · The image on the right, which shows Trump in a casket, has never appeared in the show, though it has been online since at least 2017. It also circulated in 2020 following Trump's COVID-19...
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Jan 19, 2024 · Trump announced his intention to run again in 2022, and if successful he would become only the second US president to serve two non-consecutive terms, after Grover Cleveland who won the 1885 and...
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- Josie Copson
Feb 7, 2017 · An image purportedly showing a cartoon Donald Trump in a coffin was not featured on 'The Simpsons' animated TV series.
- A House Divided
- Nuclear Relations
- Dirty Tricks and Elections
- Going with The Frontrunner
- The Holy, Sacred Anthem
- The Immigration Battle
- The Spy Camera That Saw It All
If nothing else, The Simpsons nailed how divisive elections can be with their 1990 episode, "Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish," in which the family is split on gubernatorial candidates for Springfield's state. But where it gets pretty on-the-nose in retrospect is how the episode played out. The women of the Simpson family (Marg...
In less than two years in office, Trump has already used his Twitter account to attack foreign leaders and amp up the threat of a nuclear war with North Korea. He's also managed to rankle France, one of our oldest allies, with his bizarre on-again/off-again bromancewith French president Emanuel Macron. The Simpsons foretold not just a leader antago...
Few Simpsons episodes have skewered the mechanizations of elections and political parties quite like the 1994 episode "Sideshow Bob Roberts." The episode is packed to the gills with old political references, mostly related to JFK avatar Mayor Quimby -- like a Rush Limbaugh clone, using dead peoples votes, unfortunate appearances during televised de...
Imagine this: A political party is facing an election where none of the main candidates electrify the electorate, and then one simple-minded outsider emerges whose campaign is treated like a joke until that candidate captivates the voters so the party shrugs, says "to hell with the party, let's pick the winning horse," and rolls with it. It sounds ...
While debates over one's behavior during the national anthem at sporting events is a relatively recent development, The Simpsons tackled it in its own unique way in the 2004 episode "Bart-Mangled Banner." No, Bart accidentally mooning the flag due to a series of bizarre coincidences isn't the same as Colin Kaepernick's social justice protests. But ...
One of Trump's biggest policies has been his anti-immigrant push, which has involved everything from a heated argument over the poem on the Statue of Liberty to the horrific policyof separating children from their parents. The Simpsons tackled the issue in the 1996 episode "Much Apu About Nothing" in which a typical topsy-turvy Simpsonsplot starts ...
Okay, this one is not as deep as the others, but it's hard not to see the parallels between the incident at the center of the 1990 episode "Homer's Night Out" -- Bart snaps a photo of Homer dancing with a stripper -- and, well, plenty of Trump scandals. From the Access Hollywoodtape to Omarosa's tapes to the alleged racial slur tape to Bob Woodward...
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Mar 19, 2020 · Perhaps the most famous of these so-called Simpsons “predictions” is Donald Trump’s presidency, which the show first joked about in Bart To The Future (2000).
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Nov 9, 2016 · “The Simpsons,” however, predicted a President Trump all the way back in 2000, when Fox aired an episode entitled “Bart to the Future.” In the oddly prophetic episode, Bart Simpson is ...
