10 Films That Predicted The Trump Presidency
2. Idiocracy
Mike Judge's follow-up to the cult hit Office Space finds a modern man waking up in a future where everyone is stupid, everything is branded and the most-watched show on TV is "Ow! My Balls!" Judge spotted the parallels to his cult film early in the campaign season and offered to write and direct anti-Trump TV ads. They even roped in star Terry Crews to reprise his role as President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.
Screenwriter Ethan Cohen was excited, tweeting about it regularly, claiming in interviews that "It won't take much longer to get [where we are]." Fans were thrilled. All Judge needed was to get the clearance from 20th Century Fox to reuse the characters and...oh...Fox. The company's Grand Wizard Rupert Murdoch has been very open about his support for Donald Trump. The mogul nixed the idea, though Camacho did make appearances on FunnyorDie shorts leading up to 2012.
We may not be at "Ow! My Balls"-level stupid yet, but the concept of everything being branded and other, smaller jokes ring true. And the idea of watering plants with Gatorade is up there in the pantheon of crazy like Trump's quickly derided query about nuking hurricanes.