Back in July, Michael Moore predicted that Donald Trump would be elected president, zeroing in on four states that would move in his favor: Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Ohio. And despite the odds being heavily stacked against him at the time, Moore turned out to be right.
Moore has been visibly resistant since Trump’s surprise victory, helping organize protests and campaigning for an end to the Electoral College. Earlier this week, he stopped by Late Night With Seth Meyers to have another go at that prediction game he turned out to be so good at. Invoking the “genius” of Alexander Hamilton—a somewhat popular topic these days—Moore explained the “stopgap” and the fact that nothing is set in stone just yet:
He’s not president of the United States yet. He’s not president, right? He’s not president until noon on Jan. 20, 2017 … That’s more than six weeks away. Would you not agree, regardless of what side of the political fence you’re on, that this has been the craziest election year? Nothing anyone predicted has happened. The opposite has happened. So is it possible, just possible, that in these next six weeks, something else might happen? Something crazy. Something we’re not expecting.
So far, however, no luck: Unprecedented conflicts of interest, unhinged Twitter rants, and generous swamp-refilling don’t quite qualify as that “something crazy.” But as Moore said, we’ve still got several weeks to go.
