{"id":2609,"date":"2019-08-21T14:04:54","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T18:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/?p=2609"},"modified":"2020-09-24T00:06:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T04:06:27","slug":"the-simpsons-and-the-trump-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/2019\/08\/21\/the-simpsons-and-the-trump-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"“The Simpsons” and the Trump Presidency @TheSimpsons"},"content":{"rendered":"

DId\u00a0The Simpsons\u00a0<\/em>predict Donald Trump’s rise to the Presidency? As it turns out, yes. In an episode called “Bart to the Future,”<\/a> a “vision of the future” episode first aired March 19, 2000, the show depicts Lisa Simpson as President about thirty years in the future, elected immediately after a catastrophic Trump Presidency ends. She inherits a disastrous economy and struggles to repair the U.S. image abroad. For more about this episode see<\/p>\n

Esther Addley,\u00a0Back to the Future: How the Simpsons and Others Predicted President Trump,<\/em> The Guardian, Nov. 10, 2016.<\/a><\/p>\n

Dan McCrae,\u00a0“Simpsons” Creator Matt Groening Thinks It’s “Unlikely” the Show’s President Trump Gag Will Come True,\u00a0<\/span><\/em> Uproxx, May 22, 2016.<\/a><\/p>\n

Ryan Parker, “Simpsons” Writer Who Predicted Trump Presidency In 2000: “It Was a Warning To America,” The Hollywood Reporter, March 16, 2000.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Here’s a selected bibliography about the show, law, and popular culture.<\/p>\n

Paul Halpern, What’s Science Ever Done For Us: What the Simpsons Can Teach Us About Physics, Robots, Life, and the Universe (Wiley, 2007).<\/p>\n

Kevin K. Ho,\u00a0 Comment: “The Simpsons” and the Law: Revealing Truth and Justice to the Masses,<\/em> 10 UCLA Law Review 275 (2002-2003).<\/p>\n

Steven Keslowitz,\u00a0“The Simpsons,” “24,” and the Law: How Homer Simpson and Jack Bauer Influence Congressional Lawmaking and Judicial Reasoning,<\/em> 29 Cardozo Law Review 2787 (2007-2008).<\/p>\n

Leaving Springfield: The Simpsons and the Possibility of Oppositional Culture (John Alberti, ed., Wayne State University Press, 2004).<\/p>\n

Kimberlianne Podlas,\u00a0The Funny Thing About Lawyers on “The Simpsons,”<\/em> in Lawyers in Your Living Room! 363 (ABA, 2009).<\/p>\n

Kimberlianne Podlas,\u00a0Homerus Lex: Investigating American Legal Culture Through the Lens of “The Simpsons,”\u00a0<\/em>17 Seton Hall Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law 93 (2007).<\/p>\n

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