# Did the USA elect a fictional character as President in 2016? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 22, 2018, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-usa-elect-a-fictional-character-as-president-in-2016/809330 "2018-02-22T10:44:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-usa-elect-a-fictional-character-as-president-in-2016/809330/41 "2018-02-23T12:46:17Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Claimed by who? Who else, besides you, are claiming this, **foolsguinea**? ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-usa-elect-a-fictional-character-as-president-in-2016/809330/42 "2018-02-23T12:56:03Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Has he? Or is this just what the anti-Trump press - which is nearly all of it - is reporting? He’d already damaged it before being sworn in and has kept on the same vein. Can’t accuse him of being inconsistent. One of the remarks in the car as we heard the results of the election was along the lines of “holy fuck, they’ve elected someone who’s like 4chan with worse grammar!” ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-usa-elect-a-fictional-character-as-president-in-2016/809330/43 "2018-02-23T16:28:10Z")
Trump was well known back into the 1980s. Yeah a lot of his personality is probably fake, but if it’s a pure character then he has been sticking with the act so long it might as well be the real him. ---
**Author:** ![mistymage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mistymage/32/459_2.png) [@mistymage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mistymage)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-usa-elect-a-fictional-character-as-president-in-2016/809330/44 "2018-02-23T22:51:32Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Claimed by who? How about the creators of the show (The Apprentice): > **[Politics](https://people.com/tag/politics/)** > > Politics There are 2 others (a biographer and a director) in the article that talk about how the donald is a fake. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-usa-elect-a-fictional-character-as-president-in-2016/809330/45 "2018-02-23T22:54:52Z")
> [@papaw](#): > > Someone needs to explain to me why Trump is so bad as a president. I don’t mean with accusations, but with things that actually have been proven, not implied. ( Of course his loose tonque and twitter fingers are terrible .) Can you explain why you think he is a good president, assuming you do? ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2018, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-usa-elect-a-fictional-character-as-president-in-2016/809330/46 "2018-02-24T00:56:18Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Who else, besides you, are claiming this, **foolsguinea**? …I don’t remember. OK, it’s probably just me and Kevin Spacey. But as a subject for discussion, it got **Stranger** to endorse Jean “What broccoli people?” Grey for President of the United States, so I consider it fruitful. ETA: I may have seen a passing reference to what **mistymage** linked in post #44. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2018, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-usa-elect-a-fictional-character-as-president-in-2016/809330/47 "2018-02-24T01:43:32Z")
> [@mistymage](#): > > How about the creators of the show (The Apprentice): > > [Politics](http://people.com/politics/apprentice-creators-donald-trump-scam/) > > There are 2 others (a biographer and a director) in the article that talk about how the donald is a fake. Thank you. I am generally suspicious of any conversation that starts with “Some say…” or “I’ve heard it said…” without identifying who said it. ---
**Author:** ![edwardcoast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cab0a1/32.png) [@edwardcoast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwardcoast)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2018, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-usa-elect-a-fictional-character-as-president-in-2016/809330/48 "2018-02-24T03:59:13Z")
The US electoral college elected a reality TV star, not the populate vote. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2018, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-usa-elect-a-fictional-character-as-president-in-2016/809330/49 "2018-02-24T04:15:22Z")
Let’s not forget, **Tired and Cranky** that, for the 45th year in a row, the Republicans have failed to do anything about abortion. Lots of sturm and drang, as usual, threats to PP, but they made sure to, again for the 45th year in a row, not make any significant movements on the one issue which they dare not solve. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2018, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-usa-elect-a-fictional-character-as-president-in-2016/809330/50 "2018-02-24T04:26:33Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Let’s not forget, **Tired and Cranky** that, for the 45th year in a row, the Republicans have failed to do anything about abortion. Lots of sturm and drang, as usual, threats to PP, but they made sure to, again for the 45th year in a row, not make any significant movements on the one issue which they dare not solve. And 45 years from now we still won’t have a beautiful magnificent wall on our Southern Boarder. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-usa-elect-a-fictional-character-as-president-in-2016/809330.md?page=2)