"Donald Trump has people worried, because he's so unpredictable," Trevor Noah said on Tuesday's Daily Show. "No one has a clue what he's going to do next — Republicans, Democrats, nobody." Or almost nobody. The exception, Noah said, is an oracle who calls himself Sir Ahnrop (but is actually Roy Wood Jr. with a hooded cape and Jamaican accent). The premise of his soothsaying is that President Trump's pre-presidential tweets are a flawless predictor of what he will do in office — if he once criticized a certain predecessor for playing golf, for example, Trump will spend unprecedented amounts of time on the greens himself. When it comes to the future, Sir Ahnrop got a little fuzzier — though Michael Douglas really may want to watch his back. Watch below. Peter Weber
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