‘The Simpsons’ has always been ahead of its time, but I wonder how many of us remember way back in 2000, when Simpson writers saw Donald Trump as president? Perhaps we forgot, having dismissed the idea as sheer lunacy…The kind of thing which could only happen in a cartoon!
In this episode, Trump’s successor is “America’s first straight female President, Lisa Simpson.” When Lisa takes the reins, the U.S. is flat broke, it looks as if we are destined to be Trump’s fifth -‘yuuuuuuuuge’ bankruptcy! Will Lisa’s purple power pantsuit giver her the wisdom and strength to do the impossible?!
The deja vu is feeling kinda creepy now, isn’t it? While we were all chuckling, we blissfully forgot just how prescient Simpson writers could be!