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  • 2017-06-07 (xsd:date)
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  • Did 'The Simpsons' Predict That President Trump Would Touch a Glowing Orb? (en)
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  • If you pay attention to the steady stream of rumors that The Simpsons has predicted real-world events, you might get the impression that the Fox Broadcasting Company employs fortune tellers and time-travelers to pen the long-running animated show. However, many of these rumors have a pretty simple explanation: The show was spoofing a previous event, not predicting one that had yet to occur. That was the case in June 2017 when an image purportedly comparing a screenshot from a 15-year-old episode of The Simpsons with a May 2017 photograph of President Trump touching a glowing orb was shared thousands of times on Facebook: Both The Simpsons screenshot and the photograph of Trump touching a glowing orb are authentic, but the Facebook post gets the timeline wrong. The photograph shows President Trump, Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz, and Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi at the inauguration of the Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in May 2017. However, The Simpsons image is not from a 2002 episode; rather, the screenshot comes from a short video posted to The Simpsons Facebook page on 26 May 2017 — after Trump's visit to Saudi Arabia. The picture can be seen on a wall leading up to the office of Vice President Mike Pence at the 6 second mark of the following video: (en)
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