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>The idea of Donald Trump as President of the USA I find this disturbing, because not only is it not true, that it originated in 2015, and many people have com
by perl4ever 5y ago
>The idea of Donald Trump as President of the USA
I find this disturbing, because not only is it not true, that it originated in 2015, and many people have commented on how The Simpsons predicted it in 2000...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_to_the_Future https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_to_the_Future
...but the reason they predicted it had a lot to do with Trump running in 2000, and more recently, he's reportedly been saying he is such a winner he won the first time he ran.
So it reminds me of the famous photo with Stalin and the "vanishing Commissar"...but what do you know - that has been deleted from Wikipedia recently!
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Commissar_Vanishes_2.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Commissar_Vanish...
It was there prior to 2016 though:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150516002908/https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Commissar_Vanishes_2.jpg https://web.archive.org/web/20150516002908/https://commons.w...
- nl 5y agoYou are missing the point of what I'm saying. Trump wasn't taken seriously as a candidate in 2015. He didn't declare his candidacy until July 2015 at which point his odds were 150/1 and it didn't get above 66/1 in 2015. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-36392621 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-36392621 In 2000 his run wasn't taken seriously either. He had a approval rating of 7%. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_2000_presidential_campaign https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_2000_presidenti...
- perl4ever 5y agoOk, fine, you wrote "the idea" and you meant "taking seriously". But I suspect you had it right the first time. I sort of think "the idea" is the relevant stage. And that adds ~15 years to that particular thing.