The Simpsons predicts future again as Donald Trump announces 2024 presidential campaign-Louise Griffin-Entertainment – Metro

The Simpsons has done it again (Picture: Twitter/Al Jean)

Al Jean, producer of The Simpsons, has pointed out that The Simpsons has ‘predicted the future’ again, with Donald Trump running for President in 2024.

Following Trump’s announcement, Al shared a screenshot from a 2015 episode of the cartoon, featuring a flying Homer Simpson and a sign in the background reading ‘Trump 2024.’

During the episode, titled Bart To The Future, Lisa Simpson is shown as president telling her advisors: ‘As you know we’ve inherited quite a budget cut from President Trump’.

Al captioned the shot: ‘@TheSimpsons As predicted in 2015.’

Former President Trump confirmed on Tuesday he would officially mount a third campaign for the White House.

He said: ‘In order to make America great and glorious again, I am tonight announcing my candidacy for president of the United States.’

Trump, wearing a red tie, walked into a packed room at his resort in Palm Beach, Florida, with ‘God Bless the USA’ playing in the background. The crowd chanted ‘USA!’ as he went up to a podium with signage reading, ‘Trump: Make America Great Again! 2024.’

It’s just the latest in a string of ‘predictions’ from The Simpsons. However, some have argued that the idea Trump would run for president in 2024 wasn’t the hardest thing to predict.

Al agrees, previously telling Metro.co.uk: ‘Most of the other things like Trump being President or Brazil winning the world cup are educated guesses.

Trump is running for President in 2024 (Picture: AP)

‘Trump was considering being President back in the 90s. We wanted Germany to win because we went to Brazil to lose and Germany was the next best bet for the World Cup.

‘So, a lot of the things that we predicted are just, unfortunately, things you could see coming.’

However, there are some ‘eerie’ coincidences too, with Al adding: ‘There was one, I didn’t work on this, but it was just too eerie for words. In the 90s, we did an episode about the World Trade Centre. There was a handbook held up that said, “New York on $9 a day”. Then it had the two Towers, so it looked like a 9/11.

‘That was completely coincidental, that was bizarre. I don’t know, I can’t explain that.’

Episodes from the past managed to correctly guess Donald Trump’s presidency, claims of voter fraud that have shaken politics, Brazil beating Germany in the World Cup, the horse meat scandal, and even the Covid-19 pandemic, leading those watching on from home to question exactly what they could predict next.

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