While President Trump traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border today to lobby for support of his controversial border wall, the internet was buzzing about a 60-year-old clip from an old TV Western that features a villain named Trump pitching an idea for a wall to protect the townspeople.
Yes, just like The Simpsons, it seems the old show Trackdown perfectly predicted a moment of the Trump presidency well before Donald Trump came to power.
In the clip, a con man named Walter Trump uses extreme fear-mongering to convince people that they need a wall to protect them from the “end of the world.”
But this Trump faces a skeptical opponent in Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman (played by actor Robert Gulp).
The entire clip is so on point that, during a confrontation, the Trump character even threatens to sue Gilman.
Watch clip here:
The clip first surfaced in 2016, but it has picked up new steam in recent days with the ongoing debate over funding for President Trump’s border wall.
Republican governors of border states have not sounded the same urgency as Trump about a “national emergency” at the border.
Trackdown aired on CBS between 1957 and 1959 at 8:30 pm following the adventures of Texas ranger Hoby Gilman.
The villain Trump appeared in the 30th episode of the show, aired on May 9, 1958 with the title “The End of The World.”