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We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!
Bill Pullman is best president
Also I dunno why I always get chills when I hear this obviously cheesy line. He sold it.
Easily one of the best movie speeches of all time. I remember seeing it in a theater in NYC when it was first released, and the entire auditorium went apeshit.
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Kinda floored he hasn’t been mentioned yet, so I’ll throw him in the mix.
Too Kennedy.
honestly in the west wing world even arnold vinick would be good.
Dogshit president. Only accomplishment was cutting social security.
Bartlet.
he was a good man - but he gave up the presidency temporarily after lying about having MS, frequently engaged in black ops in other countries, shut down the government like Trump, and knowingly employed an alcoholic who was constantly relapsing during the campaign trail as his chief of staff. Also his communications director leaked military secrets, his press secretary was in a suspicious relationship with a journalist, his wife committed medical fraud and due to knock on affects of his security protocol he and his speech writer are shot, he and his senior staff are exposed to a potential chemical weapon and quarantined, several secret service agents are killed during active service protecting the first family, and during some of these killings his daughter is kidnapped.
His administration was a mess lol
Donald Trump. Because he'd be fictional and not real.
Henry Hayes from Stargate SG-1
Anyone. Literally any movie president would be better than what we have. I'd take Bill Pullman, Harrison Ford, Jack Nicholson from Mars attacks, anyone.
Terry Crews from idiocracy
I'd like to see the House of representin be making some stupid votes with Terry Crews standing there flexing his pecs and glaring all angry at em.
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Nixon’s head on a robot body.
Naw hed sneak into people's houses at night and wreck up the place
The versions of historical american presidents seen in the american mythology. The world could use a president as great as the George Washington patriotic Americans think he was.
Morgan Freeman and no one can say different. I can sleep on a cloud of his voice
Look, the bar has been set so low that even Idiocracy has a better president.
For USA? Roland Crane, since his only act shown in his office was getting offed by missile strike.
When he wasn't trying to engage in his favorite pastime of killing and vilifying Superman, Lex Luthor was a pretty good President all things considered.
either of them
President Beethoven
beethoven stopped a girl from drowning, helped a kid stand up to bullies, helped a girl get a date, and stood up to sleezy business people stopping someone from making a bad deal. president beethoven would be a blessing.
Film: Dave (1993).
Everyone should watch this movie at least once.
first thing to come to my mind... loved Kevin Kline in this!
Volodymyr Zelenskyj, while not perfect, has proven he can both play and do the job.
In general or in comparison?
As long as it’s an actor/actress who played the president in something.
Well in comparison it would be all of them. In general, I'd say Bill Pullman.
The Federation president is probably passable. Though Star Trek really doesn't show how the Federation government is structured probably because they don't want to lean too much into the socialist undertones in case they get canceled for it.
President Merkin Muffley.
Stephen Colbert. Though iirc in the marvel universe he won the popular vote but lost the EC vote to Obama.
He still would be a good president.
President Kamacho is sorta like the president we have now if that's what you're into.
Camacho was nuts but he still cared about his people. Donny don’t give 2 shits about any of us.
For real. I for one would gladly take President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho over what we have now.
Richard Splett
Vasyl Petrovych Holoborodko?
not sure but i know that Vasyl Petrovych Holoborodko didn't do too great
Alexander Purchinov.
Jack Ryan from the books
In one Simpsons episode Cletus was a president, I'd think he would do his job well.
Nayak (2001)
Carl Parker Buckman from the Story "A Fresh Start" by Rollie Lawson.
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