Carly Mallenbaum, and Jayme Deerwester

USA TODAY

A new trailer for The Handmaid's Tale got viewers talking politics Thursday, despite the fact that the series is adapted from a 32-year-old book.

For anyone who thinks the Hulu series, premiering April 26, is a response to President Donald Trump's White House, author Margaret Atwood would like to direct you to the copyright page of her dystopian novel about young women forced to bear children for couples unable to conceive.

"Sigh," she tweeted Friday. "First published in 1985."

If you read Atwood's novel, you know the premise of Handmaid's Tale: In a near-future dystopia, Offred (Elisabeth Moss) is stripped of her rights and treated as breeding property for the state. In the clip, Offred gets fired from her job, her child is taken from her and she's told she will be carrying children for "the leaders and their barren wives."

In response, she declares, "When they slaughtered Congress, we didn't wake up. When they blamed terrorists and suspended the Constitution, we didn't wake up then, either. Now I'm awake."

The trailer's YouTube page drew more than 1,300 comments in its first day. "Sounds a lot like modern day," writes YouTuber El Tio Brizu. "It is pretty terrifying how prescient this is," comments quizzabella. Meanwhile, on the other side of the political spectrum, viewers like Meme Master are calling the show "anti-Trump propaganda," despite the fact that the series was announced a year ago.

At the time Handmaid's Tale came out, Ronald Reagan was president. Trump was still with his first wife, Ivana, and just was making his national television debut on CBS' 60 Minutes. In other words, it was long before he declared any political ambitions.

Is the book's theme still relevant today? Protesters in Texas sure think so. Women dressed like the protagonists in the book — in long red robes and white bonnets — and appeared in the state Senate Monday to show their opposition to two abortion-related bills under consideration.

Fans also drew a parallel between the story and Thursday's meeting between Vice President Mike Pence and what appeared to be a room full of male House Republicans about removing maternity care from their proposed Obamacare replacement.