Simpsons predicted it - or did it? Has the formula finally failed? If you thought the Fox show called this candidate taking the White House, the answer appears to be yes. Simpsons predicted it - or did it? Has the formula finally failed? If you thought the Fox show called this candidate taking the White House, the answer appears to be yes.

The Simpsons failed to predict the future for the first time after Kamala Harris lost the United States presidential election to Donald Trump. In a 2000 episode, the long-running sitcom appeared to predict that the vice president would clinch victory.

As time passed, more and more of the political predictions in The Simpsons were revealed to be true. It's hard to say whether there's a level of prophecy from the writers or wheth