‘They did it again’: Texas GOP brings a real elephant to a convention – as people believe another Simpsons prediction has been fulfilled
The Texas Republican Party has dragged a real elephant through its convention, sparking mockery online with some referencing a Simpsons episode.
Reporters covering the convention in Houston on Friday shared video on social media of an elephant, called Paige, walking near the press area wearing a feathered hat and a banner that read, “Unity Drives Victory.”
As the elephant was passing along, it peed on the convention floor in front of shocked spectators.
“Oh shoot,” one person can be heard saying in the video. Others couldn’t help but laugh as the elephant continued to pee as it walked forward.
Local Republicans had gathered at the George R. Brown Convention Center to elect party leaders and prepare for the November midterm elections. But all anyone was talking about online was Paige the elephant.
Videos of Paige relieving herself on the convention floor quickly went viral, especially given how eerily similar it was to an episode of the animated sitcom, The Simpsons.
“The Simpsons did it again,” one X user wrote along with a gif of an episode showing an elephant, the mascot of the Republican Party, marching through a GOP convention.
Banners hung from the stage of the fictional convention that read, “We want what’s worst for everyone” and “We’re just plain evil.”
“The Simpsons actually predicted this LMAO,” another X user wrote, citing the episode, “Bart Gets an Elephant,” which first aired in 1994.
In the episode, the elephant also walks through a Democratic convention, where the banners read, “We hate life and ourselves” and “We can’t govern!”
There’s been a long-running conspiracy theory that the creators of The Simpsons have predicted major events through episodes of the show, most notably the moment President Donald Trump rode down the escalator of Trump Tower to announce his candidacy for the 2016 presidential election.
But the episode where Homer Simpson rode the escalator with Trump actually aired after the president’s big moment in 2015. The show did, however, predict Trump would become president in a 2000 episode titled, “Bart to the Future.”
Others on social media took the viral moment from the Houston convention to ridicule the Republican Party.
“Governor Abbott closed out his speech at the Texas GOP convention with a live elephant. It then peed on the floor as it left the room,” the Texas Democratic Party wrote on X. “The perfect metaphor for the Texas Republican Party.”
