When considering all the potential possibilities, you must also consider all the "prophets" who have made endless predictions about Trump.
Out of tens of thousands of false predictions, one starts to look a little similar if you squint. That's a classic selection bias and cherry-picking effect.
Stephen King's The Dead Zone depicts a populist politician who survived an assassination attempt: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa-3up4-xNk
If I wanted to make the case, I could say that this whole story and the assassination attempt is a close match for Trump's story, therefore King is making an accurate prophetic prediction. But that's obviously silly
Now, if this one guy keeps being correct again and again I would feel *very* differently.
But to the extent that *different* people's predictions are all selected post-facto and all lumped together as a general, single effect... That's where I get off the ride.
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