After Donald Trump’s debate performance last night, which found the former Home Alone 2: Lost in New York star ranting and raving about imaginary problems (some of which involving immigrants in a city literally named “Springfield”), naturally people’s minds drifted to The Simpsons.
Specifically, viewers likened Trump’s geriatric outrage to the famous meme depicting a news clipping of Grampa Simpson yelling at a cloud. This excerpt from a Season 13 episode has become social media’s defining image of impotent elder rage targeting nonexistent threats.
Longtime Simpsons writer Al Jean even felt compelled to deploy the meme for the very first time, following years of self-restraint, claiming, “I think now is the time.”
Even wilder, Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz implicitly compared Trump to the Grampa Simpson meme by telling ABC News that the “angry” and “unhinged” former president reminded him of “an old man yelling at the clouds.”
On the live episode of The Daily Showthat immediately followed …