Of all the books and movies that presaged the rise of our reality-TV president—Sinclair Lewis’s 1935 novel It Can’t Happen Here; Neil Postman’s 1986 polemic Amusing Ourselves to Death; Mike Judge’s 2006 sci-fi satire Idiocracy—none are so eerily on the nose as this once-obscure, 1958 episode of Trackdown in which a demagogue named Trump attempts to convince a town that only he can save its citizens from the threats outside their borders . . . by building a wall.

The clip from the western-themed show, which originally aired on CBS, began making the rounds shortly after Donald Trump was elected president. “This 1958 TV Western PREDICTED DONALD TRUMP” the video’s summary declares, and watching the clip, it’s easy to see the uncanny similarities. The late actor Lawrence Dobkin plays a con man named Walter Trump, who enters a dusty town in Texas to scare the locals into believing that the world will end in a rain of cosmic fire unless they let him build a giant wall to protect them. “I am the only one. Trust me,” says Trump. “I can build a wall around your homes that nothing will penetrate.”

This fake-news worthy premise has been verified by IMDb, as well as Snopes.com, which contacted the television network that aired reruns of Trackdown. According to MeTV, the episode, titled “The End of the World, is, in fact, real, and ends with Trump being shot and, apparently, killed.

The episode may not have predicted everything about the ascendancy of Donald Trump: no bandit named Crooked Hillary enters town to retrieve secret telegrams, nor do gramophone recordings reveal that Walter Trump bragged about groping women while on a Wells Fargo wagon. (Nor, sadly, did Donald Trump ever wear a magician’s robe during the 2016 campaign—at least none that we know about.) Nevertheless, in a time where everything is unpredictable, it may be comforting to know that there was some sign that prophesied the coming of President Trump and his wall.

Now that the White House is racing ahead with plans to begin its construction along the U.S.-Mexico border, it may be instructive to return to the tape to read any unexamined tea leaves. Did Walter Trump promise the townspeople that the cosmic fire would reimburse them for the cost of the wall? Did his allies quietly explain to newspapers that parts of the wall might be transparent, relying merely on “sensors and other technology”? In both cases, it seems, the promised wall was a scam.