Simpsons writer reveals how they predicted the ‘insane’ scenario of Donald Trump becoming president
THE prophetic Simpsons writer who predicted a Donald Trump presidency has explained it was a "warning to America".
The episode Bart To The Future aired 16 years ago and features a grown-up Lisa as US president.
Lisa then speaks to a group of advisers, including a grown-up Milhouse, about "inheriting quite a budget crunch from President Trump".
Dan Greaney, a long-time writer on the show, has explained: "It was a warning to America.
"That just seemed like the logical stop before hitting (rock) bottom.
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"It was consistent with the vision of America going insane.
"What we needed was for Lisa to have problems beyond her fixing, that everything went as bad as it possibly could, and that's why we had Trump be president before her".
James L Brooks, executive producer of The Simpsons, tweeted after Trump's election: "F**k disillusionment!"
Greaney, who also produced episodes of the US version of The Office said: "The Donald Trump that we were writing about was kind of a lovable, over-the-top character and didn’t have this darkness.
"There’s nothing in the episode about walls or rounding up Mexicans or Islamophobia. You would expect that he’d build giant monuments to himself but you wouldn’t expect that the first thing would be a wall."
The Simpsons referenced Trump's real-life run for the presidency again last year in a short clip called Trumptastic Voyage.
Earlier this year Simpsons creator Matt Groening told they used Trump because he was "the most absurd placeholder joke name that we could think of".
It is not the first time a Simpsons prophecy has come true as they are also credited with predicting the death of Harambe the gorilla and the horsemeat scandal.
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