It’s an image that made the rounds after Trump shocked the world with his successful run for commander-in-chief. The Simpsons called it, folks said. Not only did they know Trump would run but they even accurately depicted how he’d run, down to the most minor details like his signage and the way he descended down an escalator in his announcement speech. And they did it back in 2000! Amazing!

Okay, but no. No, no, no. Not even close.

The images above are not from a Simpsons episode from 2000 but are instead from a short made for Fox from...2015, after Trump announced his run for the presidency. Why did the show capture such precise detail about Trump’s announcement? Because the images were drawn after it. This instance is open-and-shut, an obvious fake. But somehow the internet gobbled it up and believe that a television show was able to envision everything, even down to the font Trump used.

Come on, people. I know we can be a silly nation but this is a bit much, right? And yet people fall for it again and again. There are countless other instances of The Simpsons seeing the future but they’re all coincidental or flimsy at best. People want to believe it’s true so they find the tiniest coincidences and blow them up into massive predictions. And The Simpsons has been on the air for a long time, they’ve made many jokes about many things. There are ample episodes to pull “predictions” from. But none of them are concrete, none of them are more than humorously ironic.

Yes, the show did say that Trump would be president in a throwaway joke from a 2000 episode. An adult Lisa Simpson, now president of the US, says “we’ve inherited quite a budget crunch from President Trump.” There you go! That’s a legitimate reference to Trump being president all the way from the year 2000. However, Donald Trump had publicly flirted with the idea of running for president several times, including in 1999. Of course the idea of him winning was preposterous then too. So The Simpsons was making a joke about Trump somehow claiming the highest office in the land. They weren’t foreseeing what was ahead, they were poking fun at something that seemed ridiculous and far-fetched.