Donald Trump in The Simpsons short Trumptastic Voyage (Picture; 20th Century FOX)

The Simpsons has a knack of predicting the future but they may have surpassed themselves with this one – predicting Donald Trump would be president of America a full 16 years ago.

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As the world tries to come to terms with the fact that ‘The Donald’ will be in charge of the US, it turns out we had a warning a long time ago.

In the episode ‘Bart to the Future’, which aired in March 2000, Lisa takes the top job and says: ‘We’ve inherited quite a budget crunch from President Trump’ – as shown in the clip below.

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Dan Greaney, a writer for the Simpsons told The Hollywood Reporter: ‘It was a warning to America.




‘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.’

The Simpsons creator Matt Groening also 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.’

Trump visually appeared in The Simpsons more recently, in the short ‘Trumptastic Voyage’ – it’s this short that we have taken the main image from.