WATCH: The Simpsons saw Trump coming

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Published Nov 10, 2016

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London - The creator of the Simpsons came up with the fantastical idea of Donald Trump as US president 16 years ago as a joke.

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In an episode from 2000, Bart to the Future, Lisa Simpson takes over as US President and says: ‘We’ve inherited quite a budget crunch from President Trump. How bad does it get?’

A later clip called Trumptastic Voyage shows the Republican candidate take the stand with a sign saying: ‘America, you can be my ex-wife.’

The cartoon’s creator, Matt Groening, said on Wednesday: ‘Trump was of course the most absurd placeholder joke name that we could think of at the time, and that’s still true. It’s beyond satire.’

Dan Greaney, a writer for the Simpsons also told The Hollywood Reporter that the clip had a dark message behind it. ‘It was a warning to America. That just seemed like the logical last stop before hitting bottom,’ he said.

‘It was pitched because it was consistent with the vision of America going insane.’

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