Now that DC’s Legends of Tomorrow has featured a young Barack Obama, the show may set its sights on his successor: Donald Trump. Asked whether or not the series would be up for tackling Trump, executive producer Phil Klemmer seemed interested in the idea.
“Um… I think you just guaranteed it,” Klemmer told TVLine with a laugh. “I’d love to see a mid-’80s Trump. It’d be a blast.”
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In “Guest Starring John Noble,” the penultimate episode of Season 3, The Flash villain Gorilla Grodd went back in time to kill Barack Obama in his college dorm, preventing him from ever becoming president. This action would have been the anachronism that broke the timestream’s back, as it were; if Grodd hadn’t been stopped by the Legends, the subsequent anachronism would have freed the demon Mallus from his prison.
Seeing as Obama’s tussle with Gorilla Grodd was barely a C-plot in the episode, a visit to mid-80s Trump would certainly be in line with the show. Over the years, Legends has gone more and more over the top, with Obama’s cameo just one in a series of bizarre events.
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“There’s a certain point where you realize, ‘This scene doesn’t need to be in the show. This is totally gratuitous, us sending a little ‘love letter’ to the ex-president,’” Klemmer recalled. “But when I rewatched the episode last night, I was like, ‘Thank God we did keep in that totally superfluous love letter to the ex-president.’”
Airing Mondays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on The CW, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow stars Arthur Darvill as Rip Hunter, Dominic Purcell as Mick Rory/Heat Wave, Caity Lotz as Sara Lance/White Canary, Brandon Routh as Ray Palmer/Atom, Maisie Richardson-Sellers as Amaya Jiwe/Vixen, Nick Zano as Nate Heywood/Steel and Keiynan Lonsdale as Wally West/Kid Flash.