The Simpsons’ annual ‘Treehouse of Horror’ Halloween specials have seen our fave yellow family deal with everything from aliens Kang and Kodos to Mr Burns in vampire form – but this year’s episode will centre around something far more terrifying – US president Donald Trump.
According to Variety, who caught a sneak peek at the 31st instalment, the forthcoming ‘Treehouse of Horror XXXI’ episode will see Homer heading to the voting booths, where he seems to be decided on everything except who to vote for as the next US president.
The politically-savvy Lisa then appears – wearing a mask – to ask Homer, “How can you forget everything that’s happened the last four years?” before a whole bunch of Donald Trump’s missteps (to put it lightly) as president begin scrolling across the screen.
These include:
Made it okay to shoot hibernating bears
Put children in cages
Called Mexicans rapists
Imitated disabled reporter
Looks lousy in a tennis outfit
Can’t get wife to hold hand
Called third world countries ****holes
Called Tim Cook ‘Tim Apple’
Said Jewish people who vote Democrat are disloyal
Showed top-secret documents at Mar-A-Lago restaurant
Called white supremacists ‘fine people’
Leaked classified information to Russian ambassador
Asked the president of Ukraine to investigate the Bidens
Called for China to investigate the Bidens
Walked into the dressing room at Miss Teen USA pageant
Pressed the Australian prime minister to help Barr investigate Mueller
Talked about grabbing *****
Lied about the size of his inauguration
Refused to release tax returns
Gutted the E.P.A.
Confiscated and destroyed interpreter’s notes after meeting with Putin
Tweeted classified photo of Iran missile site
Called Baltimore a ‘disgusting, rat and rodent-infested mess’
Described Meryl Streep as ‘over-rated’
Leaked information to the press about the 2017 Manchester arena bombing
Did not attend any White House correspondents’ dinner
Said Megyn Kelly had ‘blood coming out of her whatever’
Called Carly Fiorina ‘horseface’
Ruined impeachment
Brought Ivanka to the G7 summit
Corrupted Congress
Appointed and didn’t fire Betsy DeVos
Put Jared in charge of Mideast
Served McDonald’s to Clemson football team
Destroyed democracy
Lost Hong Kong
Threatened Marie Yovanovitch
Pulled the U.S. out of climate agreement
Allowed bounties on soldiers
Invaded Portland
Withdrew from W.H.O.
Bragged about knowing the date
Commuted sentences
Said to swallow bleach
Person, woman, man, camera, TV
Destroyed post office
Paid $750 in taxes
Wants third term
Wanted to be on Mount Rushmore
And we haven’t even said the worst one
It’s not the first time Trump has been referenced in The Simpsons. In the season 11 episode ‘Bart to the Future’, they eerily predicted Trump’s presidency in a scene where Lisa has been elected as president and makes the offhand comment, “We inherited quite the budget crunch from President Trump.”
Considering the episode aired in 2000, we’d say that’s a pretty weird coincidence. In fact, one week after Trump was elected, the recurring chalkboard gag read, “Being right sucks.”
Among other former US presidents to have made an appearance in the series include Bill Clinton, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, George H. W. Bush, and Barack Obama.
The ‘Treehouse of Horror XXXI’ episode of The Simpsons airs in the US on Sunday, October 18th and also includes parodies of Pixar, Toy Story, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Netflix series Russian Doll.
Check out The Simpsons’ ‘Treehouse of Horror XXXI’ clip below:
