Numerous internet users have asserted that The Simpsons foresaw Harris’s prospective presidential candidacy once the news broke out.
As a result, writer Al Jean of “The Simpsons” boasted about his “prediction” of Kamala Harris winning the presidency.
The self-proclaimed “prediction” is based on an episode of season 11 episode 17 of the long-running cartoon series “Bart to the Future” in which Bart Simpson, Lisa’s brother, visits the White House in the future and discovers that Trump has been president.
Upon discovering Lisa, his younger sister, as “America’s first straight female president,” the elder sibling becomes intrigued. “We inherited a significant financial crunch from President Trump. How can it be that the nation is broke?” asks Lisa.
“Big mistake”, Milhouse Van Houten, Lisa’s assistant said in the scene.
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Jean posted a photo of Lisa Simpson on X in a purple pantsuit next to a photo of the vice president and Presidential hopeful Kamala Harris wearing an uncannily similar suit in the same vibrant color.
“@TheSimpsons ‘prediction’ I’m proud to be a part of,” Jean wrote.
The episode takes place in 2030, six years from now, and was first shown in the spring of 2000—sixteen years ahead of the Trump administration that it foretold.
The episode’s writer told “The Hollywood Reporter” in 2016 that he intended for the plot to function as a “warning to America.”
He stated at the time that “Lisa comes into the presidency when America is on the ropes, and that is the condition left by the Trump presidency. What we needed was for Lisa to have problems that were beyond her fixing, that everything went as bad as it possibly could, and that’s why we had Trump be president before her.”
Watch the snippet of the episode below:
