# Who are the least plausible fictional Presidents? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 8, 2013, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-least-plausible-fictional-presidents/675858 "2013-12-08T23:48:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ricksummon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ricksummon/32/3333_2.png) [@ricksummon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricksummon)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-least-plausible-fictional-presidents/675858/21 "2013-12-09T14:28:05Z")
The Boss in [Saints Row IV](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fACvVM_JNs) — not only does he battle aliens in a virtual reality with superpowers, he also signed a bill to “Fuck Cancer”. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-least-plausible-fictional-presidents/675858/22 "2013-12-09T15:07:28Z")
MadTV did a great bit where a blackout drinker wakes up with a massive hangover and the Secret Service quickly brings President Herman up to speed on everything he’s been up to since his girlfriend dumped him at that bar. “I failed high school twice! I butter bagels for a living! How in the hell would anyone elect me President?” “Well, I think people found you kind of refreshing, sir. I mean, you are pretty upfront with your views.” _“I don’t have any views!”_ “Maybe not now, sir. But when you get in front of a TV camera with a bottle of Jack Daniels, you can be extremely opinionated.” “You won the war against drugs with your brilliant Give Us Your Drugs Or We’ll Blow Your Freakin’ Heads Off campaign.” “I actually said ‘freakin’?” “No, sir, but I’m a Mormon.” “And how, exactly, does one go about acquiring three new states?” "Well, with Cuba … I’m quoting, here: _Cuba’s now part of the United States; anybody got a problem with that?"_ “But, uh, perhaps your greatest achievement, sir, was your cure for cancer.” “How’d I cure cancer?” “Well, you took nine of the heads of the world’s largest corporations and gave them all cancer. Within seven months we had four different cures.” ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-least-plausible-fictional-presidents/675858/23 "2013-12-09T15:18:18Z")
While I loved the movie, “Dave” was pretty darn implausible. No one could hide a President incapacitated by a stroke and replaced by a look-a-like. Too many people would know about it and would leak it to the media. Yes, I know Mrs. Wilson hid Woodrow Wilson’s stroke from the public but that was 100 years ago and things and media scrutiny is much heavier now. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-least-plausible-fictional-presidents/675858/24 "2013-12-09T15:18:49Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > MadTV did a great bit where a blackout drinker wakes up with a massive hangover and the Secret Service quickly brings President Herman up to speed on everything he’s been up to since his girlfriend dumped him at that bar. Well he obviously got the job after building experience after being for a spell the Secretary of State under President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho. Or it that “Sekritary of State”? ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-least-plausible-fictional-presidents/675858/25 "2013-12-09T15:25:18Z")
[_ **Rufus Jones** _](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tk9dtjoQY0) (warning - racism rampant in Sammy Davis Jr’s first movie). [President Itchy.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Itchy_%26_Scratchy_episodes#The_Itchy_.26_Scratchy_Movies) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-least-plausible-fictional-presidents/675858/26 "2013-12-09T15:27:55Z")
> [@PSXer](#): > > in Back to the Future Ronald Reagan was President > I know American politics has become pretty crazy lately but I hope we never get to the point that a Hollywood actor literally becomes President Ronald Reagan, the actor?! Who’s Vice President, Jerry Lewis? > [@scabpicker](#): > > Richard Nixon’s head - either attached to a robots body, or being toted around by an Agnew clone. …and I’ll go into people’s houses at night and wreck up the place! Mwah ha ha! ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-least-plausible-fictional-presidents/675858/27 "2013-12-09T15:36:07Z")
How about John Quincy Adding Machine? > [@](#): > > Turanga Leela: That’s not true. The first robot president won by exactly one vote. > Bender: Ah, yes. John Quincy Adding Machine. He struck a chord with the voters by pledging not to go on a killing spree. > Professor Hubert Farnsworth: But, like most politicians, he promised more than he could deliver. ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-least-plausible-fictional-presidents/675858/28 "2013-12-09T16:09:21Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > A former NBA player ran a while back - Bill Bradley, in 2000. To be fair, he’s a Princeton grad, Rhodes scholar, and multi-term senator when he ran. Certainly a much better candidate than Reagan. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-least-plausible-fictional-presidents/675858/29 "2013-12-09T16:20:37Z")
> [@pancakes3](#): > > To be fair, he’s a Princeton grad, Rhodes scholar, and multi-term senator when he ran. Certainly a much better candidate than Reagan. Reagan had been governor of California for two terms, not exactly a political naif. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-least-plausible-fictional-presidents/675858/30 "2013-12-09T16:42:09Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Reagan had been governor of California for two terms, not exactly a political naif. And before that he was a prominent Union president. It’s not like Reagan showed up out of nowhere. My vote: President Skroob from _Spaceballs_. Who would vote for a guy that funny-looking? ---
**Author:** ![oft\_wears\_hats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7993a0/32.png) [@oft\_wears\_hats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oft_wears_hats)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-least-plausible-fictional-presidents/675858/31 "2013-12-09T17:12:30Z")
Thirty posts and nobody mentions the president from _Hot Shots Part Deux_? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-least-plausible-fictional-presidents/675858/32 "2013-12-09T18:49:16Z")
A teenage rock star becomes POTUS in [_Wild in the Streets_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_In_The_Streets) (1968). He then has everyone over 30 sent to concentration camps for LSD therapy. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-least-plausible-fictional-presidents/675858/33 "2013-12-09T19:05:22Z")
**If you leave out comedies, though** , wherein it’s acceptable for the President to be a joke, and just go with Presidents who are seriously but ill cast, who would it be? I mean, you totally believe Morgan Freeman in “Deep Impact,” and Michael Douglas seems plausible enough in “The American President.” Who’s the opposite of that? ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-least-plausible-fictional-presidents/675858/34 "2013-12-09T19:07:51Z")
[Pigasus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigasus_%28politics%29) would have made a questionable prez. Didn’t Norman Mailer run for president on the No More Bullshit platform? Hmm. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-least-plausible-fictional-presidents/675858/35 "2013-12-09T19:09:01Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > **If you leave out comedies, though** , wherein it’s acceptable for the President to be a joke, and just go with Presidents who are seriously but ill cast, who would it be? I mean, you totally believe Morgan Freeman in “Deep Impact,” and Michael Douglas seems plausible enough in “The American President.” Who’s the opposite of that? There was a string of rather bizarre presidents and VPs who moved up in the Dirk Pitt series. About as convincing as the main characters. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-least-plausible-fictional-presidents/675858/36 "2013-12-09T19:24:31Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > **If you leave out comedies, though** , wherein it’s acceptable for the President to be a joke, and just go with Presidents who are seriously but ill cast, who would it be? I mean, you totally believe Morgan Freeman in “Deep Impact,” and Michael Douglas seems plausible enough in “The American President.” Who’s the opposite of that? Jamie Foxx? ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-least-plausible-fictional-presidents/675858/37 "2013-12-09T21:29:06Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho > [Idiocracy - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy) Bullshit! We apparently have different views as to what makes a good president, but porn star and ultimate smack down champ gets my vote. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-least-plausible-fictional-presidents/675858/38 "2013-12-09T21:50:21Z")
This is pretty much the whole point of **House Of Cards** , right? President Walker gets elected thanks to the Washington power broker he promised would be Secretary of State, and then decides, _nah, screw that guy._ And cue Kevin Spacey scheming as if (a) he’s still in **Superman Returns** , and (b) someone just kicked Lex Luthor in the crotch. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-least-plausible-fictional-presidents/675858/39 "2013-12-09T23:33:31Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > There was a string of rather bizarre presidents and VPs who moved up in the Dirk Pitt series. About as convincing as the main characters. Jack Ryan. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-least-plausible-fictional-presidents/675858/40 "2013-12-10T00:38:15Z")
Funny, but before I even opened the thread I decided on Wayne Palmer. A former president’s black-sheep brother with no previous apparent political aspirations is suddenly the president himself with little to no explanation? Gets my vote. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-least-plausible-fictional-presidents/675858.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-least-plausible-fictional-presidents/675858.md?page=3)