Flashback: Watch 'The Simpsons' predict President Trump 16 years ago

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 9, ARMENPRESS. Almost exactly 16 years ago, 'The Simpsons' joked Trump would become president of the United States, bankrupting the country, the Rolling Stones reports.

If predicting Trump's rise in 2015 was tough, imagine doing it in 2000. Sixteen years ago—almost to the day—The Simpsonsdid just that.

In an episode called "Bart to the Future," Bart getsa glimpse at his adult self: He's a Duff-swilling slob like his father, but his sisterLisahas grown up to be president of the United States ("America's first straight female president," to be exact). As President Simpson tells her aides in one scene: "As you know, we've inherited quite a budget crunch from President Trump." In fact, the country is "broke," she learns, after Trump's presidency.

Simpsonswriter Dan Greaneyrecently toldThe Hollywood Reporterthat the line was "a warning to America."

"What we needed was for Lisa to have problems that were beyond her fixing, that everything went as bad as it possibly could, and that's why we had Trump be president before her," he said.