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In February 2017, an image purportedly showing a still shot from an episode of the long-running animated television series The Simpsons, featuring a depiction of President Donald Trump lying in a coffin, was circulated on social media: This image was frequently shared along with messages stating that The Simpsons were foretelling President Trump's death, since the show has reportedly predicted so many other major events: There are several problems with this claim. First, the above-displayed image was not taken from an episode of The Simpsons (nor did it appear in an article by The Huffington Post promulgating this rumor, as the watermark suggests). According to a Spanish-language video from Badabun, which had more than 1 million views at the time of this writing and was largely responsible for spreading this rumor, the image first appeared in a thread on a 4chan.org forum. An English-language video was also circulated about this theory. In addition to the unofficial origins of this image, these videos are questionable because they used previously debunked Simpsons predictions in order to lend credence to their claims. For instance, the clip of Trump's riding down an escalator aired after Trump had announced that he was running for president, not before.
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