The Simpsons strikes again as Donald Trump joins the 2024 race for president

Los Angeles, California - The Simpsons has once again predicted the future.

D'oh! The Donald is back, and The Simpsons seem to have predicted his 2024 presidential run seven years ago.
D'oh! The Donald is back, and The Simpsons seem to have predicted his 2024 presidential run seven years ago.  © Collage: ALON SKUY / AFP & IMAGO / Cinema Publishers Collection

D'oh! The Donald is back.

Immediately after Donald Trump officially announced his candidacy to run for president in 2024 on Tuesday night, one of the creators of the iconic animated series spoke out about a telling cartoon coincidence.

Al Jean, the showrunner responsible for the day-to-day operations of The Simpsons, shared a snapshot on Twitter of a scene from an episode of the TV show in 2015.

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The shot shows hero Homer Simpson floating in the air, with a campaign sign at the bottom of the image that reads "Trump 2024."

"As predicted in 2015," Jean wrote. 2015 was the year Trump first ran as a presidential candidate.

Fans have taken notice, as the writers of The Simpsons are said to have almost clairvoyant abilities, especially on the subject of Trump – after some extreme scenarios in the series' plot actually occurred after they appeared in the show.

In the episode Bart's View of the Future which aired in 2000, President Donald Trump - who was elected 16 years later – had just finished his fictional term in office - and brought America to ruin.

The show is also said to have forecasted the outbreak of the pandemic – in the 1993 episode Marge in Chains which featured a mysterious virus from Asia – and the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol – which showed a mob storming the Capitol in a 1996 episode.

There have been numerous other Simpsons conspiracy theories as well.

The Simpsons is currently in its 34th season and has aired over 700 episodes, cementing its place in popular culture. It made its debut in 1989 and is TV's longest-running primetime animated series and the longest-running sitcom, having won over 30 Emmys.

Cover photo: Collage: ALON SKUY / AFP & IMAGO / Cinema Publishers Collection

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