# New Trump/Clinton skit on the Simpsons

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-trump-clinton-skit-on-the-simpsons/761534>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 2, 2016, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-trump-clinton-skit-on-the-simpsons/761534 "2016-08-02T08:17:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-trump-clinton-skit-on-the-simpsons/761534/21 "2016-08-03T15:30:44Z")

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[‘The Simpsons’ predicted a Trump presidency 16 years ago tomorrow. The writer explains why.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/03/18/the-simpsons-predicted-a-trump-presidency-16-years-ago-tomorrow-the-writer-explains-why/)

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> Exactly 16 years ago tomorrow [March 19th, 2016], in an episode titled “Bart to the Future,” the show predicted a Donald Trump presidency.
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> In the 2000 episode, Lisa becomes the nation’s first “straight female” president, while brother Bart has slacked away his life. And from the Oval Office, she says, “As you know, we’ve inherited quite a budget crunch from President Trump.”

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**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-trump-clinton-skit-on-the-simpsons/761534/22 "2016-08-03T19:11:06Z")

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> [@Folly](#):
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> It would be clever satire, but it appears ham-fisted because it is [uncomfortably close to the truth](http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trumps-ex-wife-once-said-he-kept-a-book-of-hitlers-speeches-by-his-bed-2015-8). How can the election be satired when things are actually unbelievably crazy.

> [@pulykamell](#):
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> Actually, no. If it is a reference to this article, then it is somewhat clever, though it’ll appear as a ham-fisted reference to the vast majority of people who are unfamiliar with it.

A book by his bedside labeled “Great Speeches” by A. Hitler is very obviously a reference to the ex-wife saying he kept a book of speeches by Hitler by his bedside, which is something many of us knew about (And I’m positive that it was posted here on SDMB, as I remember reading it linked from here). Just because a reference goes over your head doesn’t mean you get to declare it as bad writing.

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-trump-clinton-skit-on-the-simpsons/761534/23 "2016-08-03T20:00:01Z")

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There was a ~2010 episode that included flashbacks to 2000:

Homer: Thank God Clinton’s almost out of the White House! There’ll NEVER be a president worse that that guy. Not in a million years!

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