Is it true that the US Simpsons declared the NATO war, and Trump gave Putin a cake in the colors of the Ukrainian flag?

In March 2025, the next “prediction of the“ Simpsons ”” diverged in social networks: supposedly in one of the old episodes of the animated series the US president called Russia an ally in the fight against NATO. We checked the authenticity of the viral video.

Telegram channel "Cat Kostyan”(105,000 views at the time of writing this analysis) described the 23-second video published by him:“ Simpsons ”predicted that Trump would give Ukraine to Russia. In one of the old episodes, Trump declares Russia an ally, begins the war with NATO and gives Putin a cake with the image of the Ukrainian flag. ” According to the TGSTAT service, at least 230 similar posts were published in Telegram by the time this analysis, in the amount of more than 1.1 million views. Among the channels that posted the videos - “Bocharik (yeah, the same)"(185,000 views),"Khazin"(133,000),"Club service"(74,000),"Notepad Russia 18+"(67 000),"Club "Lev Scharan""(51 000),"Ramzai"(51 000),"Zaporizhzhya Front"(48,000) and others" Who we have a "Simpson" specialist, such a series really was? " - wondered in the channel "Open Ukraine | Open Ukraine"(53,000 views). Similar notes are found on VKontakte (examples here, here, here, here And here), Facebook* (here, here And here), Tiktok And Xas well as on YouTube And Somenews And entertainment sites.

For many years among many Internet users there is an opinion that Simpsons can predict the future. Some (jokingly or not) claim that the authors of the show are prophets, but others believe that this is nothing more than a coincidence. In March 2025, the head of the spiritual department of Muslims of Bashkortostan Ainur Birgalin declaredthat these could not be simple accidents: “These are not predictions, but the purposeful work of certain forces, which through mass culture lay certain meanings, test the reactions of society and prepare people for certain events.” Previously, “verified” was disassembled some Similar predictions. Sometimes to create users specially slightly edited Scenes of the animated series or by chance issued fan Images for genuine personnel. In addition, the authors of the Simpsons several times themselves Quoted or Fleaned already what happened In reality events And PhenomenaBut on the network it was perceived as a prophecy.

At the beginning of the viral video about Trump, accompanied by Russian -language subtitles, the facade of the house of the main characters of the animated series is shown, after which the action moves inside. There Marge and Homer Simpsons, sitting on the couch in front of the TV, are monitoring the news of the news. At this time, the leading Kent Brockman says from the screen: “Urgent news! The United States has declared war on NATO. We switch to a live broadcast from the White House. ” Then the mongrisia of Donald Trump is shown, who speaks from the oval cabinet: “... and then I thought why we should fight with Russia? We have so many missiles with her that together we can rule the world! Hey, don’t even look at him (cake. - Approx. Ed.), This is my gift to a friend Vladimir. ” At the end, Homer commented on the news with the words: "Ha ha ha, it is a pity that they had not done that before."

Since in decades the Simpsons have an impressive base of fans, a huge number of fan pages and sites have been devoted to this animated series. For example, in Simpsons Wiki Published More than 24,600 articles: there are galleries of personnel, descriptions of plots, biographies of characters and much more. On other thematic resources You can familiarize yourself with the decoding of most episodes. However, “verified” could not find any of these portals of mentioning a series about Trump, declaring the war of NATO. There is no such video on the official resources of the animated series.

At the same time, the video has many signs of installation and other editing. For example, in a frame with the TV presenter it is noticeable that a certain image of a rectangular shape is inaccurate to the right of him, and the traces of the bully also fell on the left shoulder of the Brocman, which is why its contour became unchanged. Around the hero himself, a certain “aura” is also visible, which is slightly different from the rest of the background.

Multiple artifacts in the stage with Trump indicate that this fragment was created and animated using a neural network. For example, when the US president is moving, some contours of his figures and details of appearance are smeared and become odd, and when he says, parts of the lips disappear. At the moment when the character indicates a finger to the side, the image on the TV changes in the proportions and shades of colors. This list can be continued, but, as previously repeatedly noted, one of the main rules when recognizing the work of the neural network is tracking the number of fingers in the image or video. In the viral video on Trump's hand there are five of them - everything would be true, if it was not a multitraeler in which the characters have on each hand four finger (rare exception).

In addition, the voices of Kent Brockman and Homer Simpson differ from how they are voiced for many years Harry Shirer And Dan Castellanet respectively.

Since no oddities in the movements of these two characters were “tested”, we suggested that the personnel with them could be completely or partially genuine. Using a reverse search for screenshots, we found that similar scenes with Brockman and Homer were in the 12th episode of the 22nd Simpsons season. This series I went out On air back in January 2011. There were no Trump among the heroes of the release, but Ukraine Not mentioned. According to the plot of the series, Homer draws advice on raising children from the sitcom of the 80s, and at that time his son Bart participates in the trade of nuclear secrets.

At the beginning of the episode, Brockman said that in the name of the segment of his news program Kent's Korrections (“Corrects of Kent”) there is a typo, since the correct spelling is Kent's Corrections. Then the host apologized for the mistake, and the emblem of the show was updated. Soon after this, Homer began to look at the old sitcom, shot in front of a live audience, after which he joked: "Ha ha ha, all of this living audience are now dead."

The distribution of edited video began on Telegram on March 20, and it was originally placed channels that were already repeatedly convicted of publication of fakes. So, the earliest appearance of the video among the posts, which was tracked “verified”, took place in the channel mentioned above “Cat Kostyan"At 18:51 Moscow time. In the future, similar posts came out, for example, in the channels "Shaman Rahu"(8000 views),"Odessa Za Victory!"(9200) and"Tasking News"(2400). In the latter, at the same time there was a note “from the subscriber” - earlier such clarification was found in many fake messages, disassembled “checked”.

Thus, in none of several hundred episodes of the Simpsons there was no scene in which Donald Trump declared the NATO war and expressed a desire to give Vladimir Putin a cake in the colors of the flag of Ukraine. The viral video was mounted from edited real scenes of the animated series and personnel generated by neural network.

*Russian authorities They think Meta Platforms Inc., which owns the social network Facebook, is prohibited by an extremist organization, its activities and symbolism in Russia.

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