10 Times Futurama Eerily Predicted The Future
7. The Wall
Though based 1000 years in the future, Futurama was never shy about tackling issues relevant in the 21st century, from the controversy of hunting for sport, to marriage equality and the threats to the environment. The show also has several episodes based around Earth's political scene.
Ever since he was elected in 'A Head in the Polls', Richard Nixon was Futurama's President of Earth, and did a pretty terrible job, allowing the planet to be overtaken by Omicron Persei 8 on more than one occasion.
In the 2012 episode, Decision 3012, Nixon again was under the spotlight as part of his Presidential campaign. While taking a stand against space aliens coming and taking good Earth jobs, the President promised to build a huge fence across the southern border of the solar system.
This is scarily similar to the giant wall Donald Trump promised to build as part of his Presidential election campaign in 2016. While the show didn't predict the wall per se, with the idea stretching back as far as George Bush Sr and Bill Clinton's stints in the White House in the 1990s, no President had yet built their entire campaign around the idea before. Futurama found itself ahead of the Republican curve in this particular aspect.