--- title: Next 'American Horror Story' Will Riff on 2016 U.S. Election description: Producer Ryan Murphy revealed that the theme of the seventh season of the popular anthology series will be the 2016 presidential election. canonical: https://time.com/4673388/american-horror-story-2016-presidential-election/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-16T16:41:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:41:11.168Z og:title: Next 'American Horror Story' Will Riff on 2016 U.S. Election og:description: Last year's election will get the television treatment og:url: https://time.com/4673388/american-horror-story-2016-presidential-election/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Next 'American Horror Story' Will Riff on 2016 U.S. Election twitter:description: Last year's election will get the television treatment twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # _American Horror Story_'s Next Season Will Tackle the 2016 Presidential Election > Sponsored content. 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The theme for the upcoming season, creator and producer Ryan Murphy has revealed, will be the 2016 presidential election. “I don’t have a title, but the season that we begin shooting in June is going to be about the election that we just went through,” Murphy revealed on Bravo’s _Watch What Happens Live_. “I think that will be interesting for a lot of people.” The show’s host, Andy Cohen, was momentarily surprised, before asking if there would be, “like, a Trump in it?” “Uh, maybe,” was the only response Murphy would give. But with an all-star cast already signed on, including the [award-winning](http://time.com/2867626/american-horror-story-star-sarah-paulson-reveals-season-4-details/?iid=sr-link6) Sarah Paulson, it looks like the politically divisive events of 2016 will soon get a worthy turn in the entertainment spotlight. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4673388/american-horror-story-2016-presidential-election/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4673388/american-horror-story-2016-presidential-election/"},"headline":"American Horror Story's Next Season Will Tackle the 2016 Presidential Election","datePublished":"2017-02-16T16:41:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:41:11.168Z","description":"Last year's election will get the television treatment","url":"https://time.com/4673388/american-horror-story-2016-presidential-election/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"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/4673388/american-horror-story-2016-presidential-election/","name":"American Horror Story's Next Season Will Tackle the 2016 Presidential Election"}}]}] ```