"Suddenly Susan", the series that predicted the election of Donald Trump

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Already in 1997, some imagined Donald Trump as President of the United States.

This is the case with the writers of the American series Suddenly Susan.

This week, in SERIELAND, Clémence Olivier tells you why. 

The series love to take hold of politics and anticipate what might happen in the years to come.

Sometimes, moreover, they have everything!

This is the case of the

series

,

in French.

In 1997, almost 20 years before the election of Donald Trump and 4 years before another series,

she imagined the billionaire as President of the United States! 

"Our next president?"

This series launched in 1996, I imagine that it does not tell you much.

I had completely forgotten about it.

It's a sitcom.

She takes us to meet Susan Keane, a journalist who writes about her life as a single woman.

In the role, we find the actress Brooke Shields.

And this fiction, she had a hollow nose therefore. 

It takes place in the last episode of the first season, which aired in May 1997 on NBC.

In the series, Vicki, a colleague and friend of Susan's, is looking for an investor to start a new magazine:

She meets Donald Trump.

He plays his own role here.

To seduce him, she shows him the front page of his newspaper.

It shows a photo of the billionaire and the headline reads: "Our next president?" 

Ubiquitous on screen

From there to say that

has everything of a pythia.

It is to go a little fast in work.

Since the end of the 1980s Donald Trump has flirted with the idea of ​​a possible candidacy.

This question comes up regularly when the businessman is invited to a TV set.

And it is often! 

And then it is logical that we think of him as the future "commander in chief", because at the end of the 90s the real estate magnate is omnipresent on the screen.

To boost his popularity, he had played his own role in a slew of fictions, the comedy Maman I Missed the Plane or the series The Prince of Bel Air and Une nanny d'enfer… Each time he was rolling mechanics! 

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The meeting with one of his opponents

But I can give you another reason to find the

notable.

Without knowing it, the series made Donald Trump meet the one who would become one of his most fervent opponents: Kathy Griffin.

In the series, the actress and comedian played Vicki, the one who asked Trump to invest in his magazine.

Except that 20 years later, the billionaire's head doesn't come back to him at all.

In 2017, she even decides to cut it for him.

Or almost.

She poses with a bloodied mask bearing the effigy of the president.

In retrospect, it's quite funny to imagine that it was she, or rather her character, who would have inspired him in fiction to introduce herself!