Donald Trump's US election win predicted by Simpsons 16 years ago
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Date: 10/11/2016

The Simpsons predicted a Donald Trump presidency 16 years ago ... but not in a complimentary way.

In the episode "Bart to the Future," which aired on March 19, 2000, Bart has a vision of his future, in which his sister, Lisa, is president. Lisa then reveals that the country is broke thanks the president in charge before her -- Donald Trump.

"As you know, we've inherited quite a budget crunch from President Trump," Lisa says to her staff in the now-infamous episode.

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Trump, of course, is now officially the 45th president of the United States.

In March, writer Dan Greaney talked about the line, which he said represented "the vision of America going insane."

"It was a warning to America," Greaney told The Hollywood Reporter. "And 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 important thing is that Lisa comes into the presidency when America is on the ropes, and that is the condition left by the Trump presidency," he further explained. "What we needed was for Lisa to have problems that were beyond her fixing, that everything went as bad as it possibly could, and that's why we had Trump be president before her."

Gleaney said he's still proud of the episode today.

"The Simpsons has always kind of embraced the over-the-top side of American culture … and [Trump] is just the fulfillment of that," he said.

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But The Simpsons isn't the only beloved show who astonishingly recently predicted a future event. Parks and Recreation predicted that the Chicago Cubs would win the World Series in its 2015 season finale, well before the team's historic win earlier this month.

They were the most vocal of Hillary Clinton's celebrity supporters, but on the morning after Trump triumphed at the polls, stars such as Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Madonna and others have to face the music.

With the election coming down to the wire over the past few days, the Democratic nominee had assembled a dream team of celebrities who backed her in a final push that included musical performances, live appearances and a flurry of social media posts.

Today, many of them returned to social media with a much different message. After some initial shock and sadness, some saw it as a reason to rise up, illustrated by Gaga's impromptu late-night protest outside Trump Tower in New York. 
Donald Trump has been elected as the next President of the United States — a reality The Simpsons predicted 16 years ago.

In March 2000, the television show aired an episode titled Bart to the Future, where Lisa Simpson had become President of the United States in an alternate reality.

Tasked with restoring order and repairing the nation, she said the country had "inherited quite a budget crunch from President Trump".

Writer Dan Greaney, who penned the episode, said earlier this year the throwaway line was intended as a "warning to America".

"That just seemed like the logical last step before hitting bottom. It was pitched because it was consistent with the vision of America going insane," he told The Hollywood Reporter.

He said he could not remember who came up with the idea of Trump as president but that it made sense at the time, as the writers needed a scenario where Lisa had "problems that were beyond her fixing".

Mr Trump's election is not the only thing the show has foreseen.

In 2010, they predicted Bengt Holmström from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology would win the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2016 — which he did, for his work on contract theory and government versus private ownership.