# The President is coming to fight you! What are the legal implications?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 12, 2021, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-is-coming-to-fight-you-what-are-the-legal-implications/948501 "2021-08-12T10:55:42Z")\
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> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#):
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> In the last 55 years, I think the only president I couldn’t take might be Obama. Regan? Bush (either)? Nixon? Trump?? are you kidding?

I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that LBJ was a proper brawler though.

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**Post date:** [August 20, 2021, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-is-coming-to-fight-you-what-are-the-legal-implications/948501/42 "2021-08-20T07:19:56Z")

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> [@griffin1977](#):
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> I’d have to point out the nearest thing to this happening in real life I’ve heard of, when the deputy prime minister in the UK got into a fight with someone who threw an egg at him:

Keep in mind that Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau once beat a Senator in a charity boxing match:

> **[Five Years Ago Today, Justin Trudeau Beat the Shit Out of a Senator](https://www.vice.com/en/article/53844q/five-years-ago-today-justin-trudeau-beat-the-shit-out-of-a-senator)**
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> And look where it got him.

And what about Putin?

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