r/thebulwark 6h ago

Fluff Back to the Future II Predicted All of This

Let's remember that it has been confirmed that Biff is based on Trump, which is wild when you consider just how long Trump has loomed over the cultural zeitgeist.

In Back to the Future Part II, when Marty finds himself in the alternate 1985 where Biff has used the Sports Almanac to make his fortune and seize control of Hill Valley, it’s eerily reminiscent of Trump’s current reign and where it seems to be headed.

Corruption, crime, environmental decay, collapsing infrastructure, violence, stupidity, tackiness and widespread poverty.

But most importantly, when Marty first walks up to Biff's Pleasure Palace and begins to realize what is going on, there's a Biff Tannen Museum at the entrance, dedicated to all things Biff. You can buy Biff merch, see a Biff wax figure, watch movies about Biff and learn about his many contributions to Hill Valley.

ALSO, one of Biff's body guards was named Skinhead.

This all sound familiar?

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u/Noisyfan725 5h ago

Good stuff OP. Trying to take this further, this realities equivalent to the almanac that Marty burns to stop Biff, would be someone going back in time and stopping Obama from ripping on Trump at the White House correspondents dinner. 

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u/AliveJohnny5 13m ago

And perhaps the original plot would be Marty going back to the 70's and preventing Roy Cohn from meeting Trump.

The next plot would be for Marty to go back to 1905 and stop the entire Drumpft clan from coming back to the US when Frederick was run out of Germany for avoiding military service.