“Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through it TOGETHER!” US President Donald Trump tweeted on Friday reporting that he, his wife and first lady Melania Trump tested positive for Covid-19 and were quarantined after a senior adviser tested positive for coronavirus.
The news, for obvious reasons, surprised everyone, as wishes began to rain down on social media for the Trumps to recover soon.
While others in the US frantically checked whether the news that Trump tested positive for the deadly infection was legitimate and not false.
In fact, “Did Trump test positive for Covid?” It was Google’s top query almost minutes after Trump posted his tweet on October 2.
However, there was something else people were looking for: The Simpsons and their “prediction” for Trump. “The Simpsons” was among the top related topics when “Trump” was typed in Google search in the United States.
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The American sitcom “The Simpsons”, which has a habit of popping up from time to time for its lurid “predictions” for the real world, started trending on Twitter that An animated photo of Trump lying in a coffin began to float to Twitter once again shortly after the news.
This isn’t the first time the Trump-Simpson photo has gone viral online. A couple of months ago, the internet was convinced that The Simpsons had predicted that Donald Trump would die on August 27.
Of course, that it did not happen nor was the photo legitimate.
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A journalist with The Times of New York CityTaylor Lorenz took to Twitter to explain what happened. In June this year, a woman created a TikTok video in an attempt to satirize conspiracy theories and said that something important was about to happen on August 27. Her video, curiously, made no comment about Donald Trump, much less her death.
The video quickly went viral and somehow ended up being associated with the transformed photo of Trump in a coffin.
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