Scottish TV listing dubs Trump inauguration ‘nightmarish’ ‘Twilight Zone’ episode

A Scottish newspaper used its TV listings to describe President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration as a “nightmarish” episode of “The Twilight Zone,” according to multiple reports. 

“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,” the Scottish Sunday Herald TV guide wrote in a preview of Friday’s event.

“It sounds far-fetched, and it is, but as it goes on it becomes more and more chillingly plausible.”

Scottish Sunday Herald TV guide – a preview of the Trump inauguration. pic.twitter.com/kFyiNfWLVy

— Nahunta Brown (@MeneuxBrown) January 15, 2017

“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 description continues.

{mosads}“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,” the piece concludes. “It’s a flawed piece, but a disturbing glimpse of the horror we could stumble into, if we’re not careful.”

The satirical listing comes ahead of Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20.

Hundreds of thousands of women are expected to gather on Jan. 21 — Trump’s first full day as president — in Washington, D.C., to protest.