Do you ever wake up to realise that Donald Trump will soon be the president of the United States and think that maybe, just maybe you've been somehow transported into an episode of The Twilight Zone? Scotland's New Sunday Herald knows the feeling.

An excerpt from the TV guide section of the New Sunday Herald is going viral because it describes the airing of Trump's inauguration as if it were all part of a TV show that we're bingeing this weekend:

After a long absence, The Twilight Zone returns with one of the most ambitious, expensive and controversial productions in broadcast history. Sci-fi writers have dabbled often with alternate 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.

It's a pretty brutal take-down of the president-elect. If only it were actually true. Then, when he starts sending people to labour camps, we could just change the channel.

From: Esquire US