What initially made the series so unique and has since been adopted by many series, from American Dad to Family Guy to South Park, was the subtle sarcasm and the tackling of current topics and controversies. While South Park is always very current, as the episodes are often only produced a few days before they are broadcast, The Simpsons draws on general topics that have been circulating for a long time.
Since there are scenes that supposedly prophesy the future over a running time of several decades, it is not surprising since the authors are already thinking about how various topics can be exaggerated and how they could develop in the future.
But sometimes this doesn't seem to be enough, because there are also many alleged prophecies in The Simpsons that are simply made up, far-fetched or manipulated. Below is our selection of claims about The Simpsons that are not true at all.
Trump 2000
There are two scenes that prove that the Simpsons predicted Trump's presidency as early as 2000.
The first scene is from the 2000 and shows Lisa Simpson as the president who has to clean up the mess left behind by the previous President Trump.
However, this scene was not very prophetic, because Trump actually for president in 2000 The episode only played with the idea of what might happen if he actually became president, according to the episode's writer Dan Greany, this was a "warning to America; The idea was implemented as a result because it was supposed to show an America gone crazy.”
In this context, there was also another scene that was published as a screenshot showing President Trump on an escalator... a scene that was repeated in real life exactly 15 years later. However, the scene is not from 2000, but from an episode from 2015 that satirized the real scene:
- Our article on this: The Simpsons 2000 vs. Donald Trump 2015 (?)
Trump and the glowing ball
In 2002, there was supposed to be a picture in The Simpsons, but it only happened exactly like this in 2017:

The image below is from May 2017 and shows Trump, Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz and Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi touching a glowing globe to open a center against extremist ideology.
The image above does not show a 15-year-old scene from The Simpsons, but a scene from the trailer for the 28th season of The Simpsons from May 26, 2017. The image can be seen in seconds 5 and 6.
Here is the video for comparison.
- Our article on this: Simpsons and Trump – clairvoyance or a hoax?
Donald Trump and Greta Thunberg
An encounter between Trump and Thunberg is said to have almost exactly been seen in The Simpsons.
However, a closer look shows that only Trump in the scene is real; Lisa was copied into the screenshot.
- Our article on this: Greta Thunberg and Donald Trump: Did the Simpsons know beforehand?
Dead Trump
In one scene in the series, Trump is seen lying in a coffin along with the statement that "The Simpsons have never lied to us."

The image has been circulating since 2017, but is not from a Simpsons episode, but first appeared as fan art in a 4chan forum, which is notorious for its organized fakes and trolling.
- Our article: Do the Simpsons predict Trump's death?
The new coronavirus
A 1993 episode of The Simpsons is said to have predicted the new coronavirus.
In a redistributed version there is a picture of news anchor Kent Brockman, who appears to be reporting on the new coronavirus, but this has been falsified .
Otherwise, that episode from 1993 does exist, but the images and video from that Simpsons episode shown on social media cannot even be remotely compared to the new coronavirus, the interpretation is that the Simpsons “predicted” the new coronavirus simply nonsense.
Conclusion
There are certainly some scenes in which The Simpsons were pretty close to the truth, for example in an older episode you can see several cables between the walls of The Simpsons, one of which is labeled "NSA". Years later there was a wiretapping scandal by the NSA, but that wasn't a prophecy either, as the rumor had been circulating for a long time that the NSA would also listen in on conversations without permission, which the makers simply incorporated into the series.
However, the examples above show that there is often strong manipulation in order to show supposed prophecies that are not prophecies at all, but are only intended to get clicks from the creators.
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