The Simpsons producers 'turned down Donald Trump's request to voice character'

Donald Trump on The Simpsons
Fox
Tom Powell29 July 2017

The Simpsons producers have revealed they rejected Donald Trump after he asked to make a guest appearance on the popular animated show.

Executive producer Al Jean was asked at a Comic-Con panel if the series had ever turned down a celebrity who wanted to voice a character.

He paused upon hearing the question, the Wrap reported, before answering: “Let’s just say he’s the president of the United States.”

The Simpsons creators predicated that Mr Trump would become president more than 16 years ago, but only as a warning to Americans.

In an episode which aired back in 2000, Lisa becomes President of the United States, talking over from ‘President Trump’.

“We’ve inherited quite a budget crunch from President Trump,” she says while sitting in the Oval Office.

Simpsons writer Dan Greaney told The Hollywood Reporter that the episode was meant to show a vision of the country ‘going insane’.

Show creator Matt Groening told The Guardian: “We predicted that he would be president back in 2000 – but (Trump) was of course the most absurd placeholder joke name that we could think of at the time, and that’s still true.

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