Oh right - of course it was plain as day that in a few years, the US would elect a deranged, delusional sociopath with the emotional development of a toddler who would, among other things, appoint the world's richest middle-aged teenage edgelord to a make-believe cabinet position as head of a department named for a 4chan meme from which he would methodically destroy every agency that might stand in the way of the wholesale economic rape of the American people,, throw a public tantrum over not receiving a Nobel Peace Prize for his complete and utter failure to negotiate peace anywhere, kidnap the President of Venezuela and appoint himself President in his place, and threaten to invade and forcibly annex Greenland, mostly in order to divert attention from the ongoing failure to complete the court-ordeted release of documents that would certainly prove that he's a child rapist.

It's so obvious. How could I have missed it?