Donald Trump was almost president in 'Sharknado 3' omg

Sharknado may not be anyone's go-to source for prescient political commentary, but as it turns out, they almost got one creepy detail exactly right.

Producers of Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! reportedly put out an offer to Donald Trump to play the president of the United States – all the way back in January 2015, months before Trump had even announced his candidacy.

To hear producer (and Asylum co-founder) David Latt tell it to The Hollywood Reporter, Trump was "thrilled" and said yes immediately. Negotiations got underway and a contract was drawn up.

... And then the Trump team stopped responding. As producers eventually learned, Trump had decided the timing was bad for him to play the president on TV, because he'd started weighing the possibility of playing the president in real life.

Trump would eventually announce his candidacy in June 2015. In January 2017, two years after the Sharknado team had tried to make him the U.S. president in their universe, he became the U.S. president in ours.

In a fun little detail that'd probably bug the hell out of Trump, he wasn't actually Asylum's top pick for the job – they only approached him after talks with Sarah Palin fell apart. Sharknado star Ian Ziering, who'd previously appeared on Celebrity Apprentice, was the one who suggested Trump.

Meanwhile, Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! moved on to the second favorite choice, Mark Cuban, for the presidential role. Ann Coulter signed on to play Cuban's VP.

Which means you can think of it this way: Not even the voters in the Sharknado universe were dumb enough to elect Trump to the highest office in the country. Truth is officially dumber than fiction.