So how did the Simpsons manage to predict Donal Trump becoming president? Simpsons writer, Dan Greaney, explains he was trying to convey what it would be like if the American public had gone insane, resulting in Donal Trump being elected as president.Disclose.tv reports: This choice allows Lisa to come in and pick up the pieces as his replacement, the story structure that the episode needed.The Simpsons episode included some details that were eerily replicated in real life.The most noticeable of these was the electoral college board featured in the episode detailing Democrat, and Republican states was an almost perfect replica of the results of the Trump vs. Clinton election.
The creator of The Simpsons, Matt Groening has previously agreed with this explanation for the choice of Trump as the fictional President stating that they chose, ‘the most absurd placeholder joke name we could think of at the time.’The jocular nature of the selection of Trump as president in the episode suggests that The Simpsons staff involved in ‘Bart to the Future’ must have been extremely surprised and amused, first to see Trump selected as a candidate and then as President of the United States.
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