Donald Trump's Inauguration Was Mercilessly Trolled By A Scottish Newspaper's TV Guide

    "After a long absence, The Twilight Zone returns..."

    A Scottish newspaper's TV guide has previewed Donald Trump's inauguration as US president as if it was the first episode of a dystopian sci-fi show.

    The Sunday Herald likened television coverage of Friday's ceremony to a new episode of The Twilight Zone, set in "a nightmarish version of 2017".

    The Sunday Herald TV guide on the inauguration of @realDonaldTrump ...

    "Today's feature-length opener concentrates on the gaudy inauguration of President Trump, and the strings of protest and despair surrounding the ceremony," wrote TV reviewer Damien Love.

    "It's a flawed piece, but a disturbing glimpse of the horrors we could stumble into, if we're not careful."

    The full listing reads:

    President Trump: The Inauguration (4pm, BBC One/STV)

    After a long absence, The Twilight Zone returns with one of its most ambitious, expensive and controversial productions in broadcast history. Sci-fi writers have dabbled often with alternative history stories – among the most common is the "What If The Nazis Had Won The Second World War" setting – but this huge interactive virtual reality project, which will unfold on TV, in the press, and on Twitter over the next four years, sets out to build an ongoing alternative present. The story begins in a nightmarish version of 2017 in which huge sections of the US electorate have somehow been duped into voting to make Donald Trump president. It sounds far-fetched, and it is, but as it goes on it becomes more and more chillingly plausible. Today's feature-length opener concentrates on the gaudy inauguration of President Trump, and the stirrings of protest and despair surrounding the ceremony, while pundits speculate gravely on what lies ahead. It's a flawed piece, but a disturbing glimpse of the horrors we could stumble into, if we're not careful.

    Lots of people really appreciated the preview, with several different screengrabs of the review being retweeted several thousand times.

    Many artists have declined to perform at Trump's inauguration, but he promised on Saturday that the celebration would be "bigger than expected".

    Inauguration Day is turning out to be even bigger than expected. January 20th, Washington D.C. Have fun!

    Tune in next Friday to see how accurate the Sunday Herald preview is.