--- description: This goat knows what's up for 2017. title: Psychic Goat Predicts Hillary Clinton Will Win 2016 Election image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # This Really Dependable 'Psychic' Scottish Goat Predicted Who Will Win the Election by [Ashley Hoffman](/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 7, 2016 9:48 PM CUT by [Ashley Hoffman](/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 7, 2016 9:48 PM CUT As sophisticated pollsters forecast the outcome of the 2016 election, meanwhile a [“psychic” goat](http://time.com/4527860/trump-machine-fortune-teller/ "undefined") has wordlessly weighed in with its own prediction. “Boots,” a thoughtful three-year-old Golden Guernsey hailing from Jedburgh Scotland recently made this very low-key prediction of the ultimate people’s choice by biting the sign marked [“Clinton”](http://time.com/4560963/global-vote-hillary-clinton-president-good-country/ "undefined") for the win, according to [Scotland newspaper _The Scotsman_](http://www.scotsman.com/news/video-psychic-scottish-goat-predicts-next-us-president-1-4280162 "undefined"). The goat, who was resplendent in a tartan scarf, wasn’t enthused about the future commander in chief, a classic goat move, although the crowd was. The Democratic nominee reportedly only [holds a narrow lead](http://time.com/4560399/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-final-day-polls/?xid=homepage "undefined") as of election eve. Earlier this year, “Boots” correctly predicted that the U.K. would vote to leave the European Union during another routine politically charged performance, [the _Scottish Sun_ previously reported](http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/7198692/Boots-the-psychic-goat-predicts-gruff-times-for-England-at-Euro-2016.html "undefined"). This crucial update arrives just days after a “mystical” monkey in China, “Geda”, planted a kiss on a flat cardboard Trump to make its prediction, according to the [Agence France-Presse](https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-election-gift-chinese-propaganda-050449861.html "undefined"). In other words, only time will tell who the true prophet is. Oddly, neither nominee has used either fortune-teller in a diss track about his or her opponent. This has been a moment in time with the sharpest political analysts of our time. Read on for [TIME’s comprehensive election coverage](http://time.com/tag/2016-election/ "undefined") and watch Boots in action below. \[[SWNSTV](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvCVlaLDPmA "undefined")/[AFP](https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-election-gift-chinese-propaganda-050449861.html "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4561620/psychic-goat-picks-clinton/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4561620/psychic-goat-picks-clinton/"},"headline":"This Really Dependable 'Psychic' Scottish Goat Predicted Who Will Win the Election","datePublished":"2016-11-07T21:48:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:38:28.400Z","description":"The trusty results are already in","url":"https://time.com/4561620/psychic-goat-picks-clinton/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Hillary Clinton","2016 Election topic","animals","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4561620/psychic-goat-picks-clinton/","name":"This Really Dependable 'Psychic' Scottish Goat Predicted Who Will Win the Election"}}]}] ```