‘Simpsons’ Showrunner Condemns ‘Horrifying’ Pretends Trump Assassination Prediction

Whoever created a pretend ‘Simpsons’ picture, falsely suggesting the present predicted Donald Trump can be assassinated is drawing the ire of the present’s head honcho, who calls it a sick transfer.

The drama kicked off shortly after Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fireplace on the ex-Prez — a social media consumer posted a doctored animated picture of Trump from “The Simpsons,” exhibiting him in a casket with the caption, “First time I’ve seen a ‘Simpsons’ prediction fail.”

Now, this complete premise is predicated on misinformation (extra on that in a minute) … however “The Simpsons” showrunner Matt Selman remains to be slamming the picture within the strongest potential sentences.

Matt tells TMZ … debunking the meme as illegitimate is not sufficient, on this case … he additionally desires to defend the legendary present’s model of humor.

Past the utterly classless nature of the bogus meme, MS says he is baffled so many individuals appeared to assume it was genuine.

FWIW, this picture of cartoon Trump in a casket NEVER appeared in an episode — and “The Simpsons” additionally by no means had an episode with a plotline about DT being killed … individuals merely paired the falsified pic with that declare, after which the Web did what it does.

Matt provides, “Anybody who thinks ‘The Simpsons’ would come with such horrifying content material on a household TV present doesn’t actually watch the present or have any understanding of ‘The Simpsons’ in any respect.” In different sentences, we do not play like that!

What made the phony assassination even plausible for a lot of is the very fact the present has “predicted” plenty of real-life occasions over the course of its record-setting run — however, on this case, they by no means known as this horrible occasion.

BTW … this isn’t the primary high-profile information story some boob on social media tried to tie to ‘Simpsons’ lore.