Did 'The Simpsons' predict a Kamala Harris Presidency?
Incumbent US President Joe Biden on Monday announced that he was withdrawing from the presidential elections in November this year. The 81-year-old Biden, who had initially rejected calls from within the Democratic Party to step aside due to his age and declining health, gave in on Monday and endorsed his deputy, Kamala Harris, as the presidential candidate.
If the Democratic National Convention, scheduled for August, approves Harris as the party's presidential candidate, she will take on former US President Donald Trump, who is contesting his third consecutive election.
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While we may still have to wait until November to find out if Harris will script history and become the first 'Madam President' of the US, some on the internet have claimed that a Harris presidency has already been predicted.?
A 2000 episode of The Simpsons is now going viral, showing Lisa Simpson becoming the first female president of the United States. What makes the episode titled ¡°Bart to the Future¡± even more compelling is how strikingly similar Lisa Simpson is to Vice President Kamala Harris's looks on the day of her inauguration in 2021.
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Al Jean, one of the best-known writers of ¡°The Simpsons,¡± commented about the similarity on social media. ¡°@TheSimpsons ¡®prediction¡¯ I¡¯m proud to be a part of,¡± he wrote on X.
The real-world similarities between incidents described in the episode ¡°Bart to the Future¡± don¡¯t even end there. In the episode, Lisa Simpson becomes the president of the US after a ¡°President Trump,¡± 16 years before he was actually elected.
If Harris does become the Democratic nominee, this will be the second time in three terms the party has nominated a woman for the post. In 2016, the party nominated Hillary Clinton as its presidential candidate, but she lost to the eventual winner Donald Trump.
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