The Simpsons is on a summer break, but its animators, unable to resist commenting on the election, have created a short imagining what it would be like if Donald Trump wins and has to answer the White House phone at 3 a.m.
While Hillary Clinton as president appears briefly — she lets Bill know that now when the Situation Room is calling, it's always going to be for her — Trump is the star of the video. He's seen wearing a nightcap, so busy tweeting about Elizabeth Warren's exile that he can't take the important call. When he does spring into action, it takes a glam squad to get him dolled up and a dog to give him his signature hair. It's all part of an elaborate ad Marge and Homer Simpson are watching, paid for by Americans Who Are Really Starting to Miss Obama. Watch the video below to find out why Homer declares, "And that's how I became a Democrat." Catherine Garcia
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