Trivial Pursuit saw the Trump presidency coming decades ago

How did they know?
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Trivial Pursuit saw the Trump presidency coming decades ago
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The 1980s were a very different time in the world. People called each other on house phones, played board games together, read Victorian literature by candlelight, fetched water from the town well, and sat by the window to wait for their sons to come back from war.

As a millennial, this is my understanding.

Anyway, Twitter user Jon Keegan stumbled upon an oddly prophetic Trivial Pursuit card from that ancient time that quite astutely summed up the year 2017 and our president.

The world certainly feels like it's going to hell in a handbasket these days, and Donald Trump sits in the world's most powerful position.

If there's one image that perfectly encapsulates Donald Trump as a person, it's the world burning around him as he carefully counts all of his money.

And hopefully, if this card continues its Nostradamus-esque ways, we are in for a pretty stellar Moonstruck reboot.

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Tyler Schmall is a humor writer based in NYC and a friend of yours. You can follow him on Twitter @tylerschmall where he has been known to post "tweets."

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