The Comedy Writer Who Predicted Trump. Now Predicting an America For All.

Why I'm Running

I'm a 60-year-old comedy writer who was always happy to leave government to somebody else. I never thought things were perfect, but the people running the country seemed serious, experienced and well-intended, even if their values and policy choices were not identical to mine.

Then came 2016 and the culminating insanity of January 6. But that still wasn't enough to shake my belief that somebody else would get things back on track. Then came Biden's belated bow-out and the return of Trump. I was beginning to lose confidence that somebody would save us.

When I saw that photo of Trump surrounded by tech billionaires and CEOs at the inauguration, I was disgusted into action. I realized that nobody was going to save us, and that self-respect required me to at least try to do something.

“While CEOs were kneeling in submission and complicity, I declared that his presidency would end in disaster sooner than anyone expected, and they would go down with him.”

I used what I had, my claim to fame as the writer of the episode of The Simpsons that predicted Trump, to predict his downfall. This was an expression of both conviction and my deepest values.

Those values, love of country and of my fellow human beings, disgust at corruption and bullying, now lead me to announce my candidacy for presidency. The Republican establishment empowered Trump, the Democrats failed to stand up to him or for us, so I'm not leaving it in their hands.

My campaign is motivated by a desire to restore the values of empathy and decency to our political culture and to give living meaning to the pledge of allegiance's dedication to liberty and justice for all.