Popular American animated sitcom, The Simpsons is quite used to of getting itself surrounded by some serious controversies. This time the show is back in the news and it’s related to none other than U.S. president, Donald Trump.
Trump is the third president in U.S. history (after Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1998) to be impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives and the only president to be impeached twice—once (in 2019) for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress in connection with the Ukraine scandal and once (in 2021) for “incitement of insurrection” in connection with the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by a violent mob of Trump supporters. Both of Trump’s impeachments ended in his acquittal by the U.S. Senate. Trump ran for reelection in 2020 but lost to former vice president Joe Biden by an Electoral College vote of 306 to 232.
On Twitter, several netizens have dragged the sitcom into the controversy by alleging it of predicting Trump’s death. As per their claims, the show predicted the date of death as 27th August 2020. The controversy traces down to one TikTok video that went viral in June.
As per the video, a young woman suggests that those viewing the video have been “chosen” and that they need to “remember the date August 27th – it is important”. The doctored video featured a morphed image of Donald Trump lying in the coffin. The same image has been tweeted by netizens.
Some Twitter users used this doctored image and had fun. One user wrote, “okay okay so I just heard that the Simpsons predicted that Donald Trump will die tomorrow?” Another user wrote, “Did Donald Trump die yet as the Simpsons said?”
Meanwhile, recently Congress Leader DeAnna Lorraine took to her Twitter and cheered up Melanie Trump’s speech while taking a dig at rapper Cardi B. DeAnna tweeted, “America needs far more women like Melania Trump and far less like Cardi B.” Replying to her tweet, Cardi B wrote, “Didn’t she used to sell that Wap?”