Albert Brooks Predicted Ozempic. Now He’s Predicting President Ossoff

In his 2011 novel 'Twenty Thirty,' he imagined a blockbuster weight-loss drug, a generational war — and a Jewish president. "God damn it," he recently told a friend. "My entire book is going to come true.” In his 2011 novel 'Twenty Thirty,' he imagined a Jewish president. By the fifth sentence of Twenty Thirty, Albert Brooks already looks like a modern-day Nostradamus. At an 80th birthday party in the 2011 novel, everyone looks suspiciously good, due in part to “a new weight-loss drug” that “works almost 100 percent of the time, in everyone.” Then come the computer watches, the self-driving vehicles and a generation of young people furious at their elders for living so long and consuming so much of the country’s wealth.

But the prediction that gave the director of Lost in America chills was the one about a Jewish president. In the novel, a candidate named Matthew Bernstein, the son of a Jewish father and a non-Jewish mother, wins the 2028 election and becomes America’s first Jewish president. Brooks, 79, was watching Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff’s final campaign speech when he thought of Bernstein. Ossoff also has a Jewish father and a non-Jewish mother. Brooks called a close friend. “God damn it,” he remembers saying. “My entire book is going to come true.” I’d read and loved Twenty