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Well, I was referencing that show whose name I can't recall that "predicted" Trump. If I recall the plotline of the specific episode, I think it was about a snake oil seller (not sure if metaphorical) named Trump that got elected as a mayor, I think, and then wanted to build a wall to keep immigrants out. I might be confusing some details, but that's what I recall.30s?
He's not that...
Oooh. That would explain a lot...
EDIT: I got confused. It was from 1958. From the Vanity Fair article that mentioned it (AKA the first Google result):
Vanity Fair said:Of all the books and movies that presaged the rise of our reality-TV president—Sinclair Lewis’s 1935 novel It Can’t Happen Here; Neil Postman’s 1986 polemic Amusing Ourselves to Death; Mike Judge’s 2006 sci-fi satire Idiocracy—none are so eerily on the nose as this once-obscure, 1958 episode of Trackdown in which a demagogue named Trump attempts to convince a town that only he can save its citizens from the threats outside their borders . . . by building a wall.