This one is not strange but weird, for my pick I'd say Weird Al Yankovic
AHC: Strangest President
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In my TL, Dead By Dawn, the US ends up with Joseph I France as President. Oddly enough he attempts to form a pro USSR government.
The Anti war movement from early 1968 decide to run an anti war Candidate. Dick Gregory gets 37% of the popular vote. Wins 300+ electoral votes.in a 4 way contest
[ He was President, in the AquaBats episode "Pilgrim Boy!" ]
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Not weird personality wise but it would be notable if one of the Blue Fugates was able to win the presidency.
For truly awful presidents, Doctor Bliss, a quack who tended to Lincoln and Garfield, was fairly well connected. Maybe he could make the jump into politics.
For truly awful presidents, Doctor Bliss, a quack who tended to Lincoln and Garfield, was fairly well connected. Maybe he could make the jump into politics.
Not terribly weird but Norman Vincent Peale running might be interesting. Not to get too into current politics, but Donald Trump attended his church as a youngster. Might be interesting to see him run.
Charles Bonaparte is TR's running mate in 1912 and gets elected on a sympathy vote after the former president is assassinated on the campaign trail?
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Tupac survives his assassination attempt but is so shaken by it that he gives up rap and goes into community activism. In 2003 He's elected Governor of California after the recall of Grey Davis. Governor Shakur's platform is largely a left-wing populist one; implementing poverty relief programs and raising taxes on the wealthy. He is a speculated candidate in 2008 but ultimately doesn't run, instead endorsing Barack Obama. In 2012 Shakur wins an upset victory in the Democratic Primary for California Senator against Dianne Fienstein and goes on to win the General Election. In 2016 he enters the Democratic Primary and narrowly clenches the nomination from Hilary Clinton after winning the California Primary. In the General Election his charisma and strong record enables him to defeat Donald Trump in a landslide, and on January 20, 2017, Tupac Amaru Shakur is sworn in as the 45th President of the United States of America.
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Strangest presidents I actually came across:
President Jack Ryan (Tom Clancy novels): no obvious qualifications other than that he repeatedly saved the world.
President James Sandecker (Clive Cussler novels): former military man (admiral) with no obvious qualifications other than repeatedly risking the fate of the whole nation on his friend Drink Pritt's personal hunch. The fact that up to now Pritt always succeeded to save the world at the last possible moment may have helped, though....
President James Marshall (Air Force One): again, no obvious qualifications other than that he looks like Harrison Ford and once pushed a terrorist out of a flying Air Force One singlehandedly. His biggest achievement up to that was that he sent a SEAL team into Kazakhstan to assassinate the country's president on the ground that he was a dictator and a Nazi. (Which was apparently also Vladimir Putin's original plan for the Ukraine)
President Jack Ryan (Tom Clancy novels): no obvious qualifications other than that he repeatedly saved the world.
President James Sandecker (Clive Cussler novels): former military man (admiral) with no obvious qualifications other than repeatedly risking the fate of the whole nation on his friend Drink Pritt's personal hunch. The fact that up to now Pritt always succeeded to save the world at the last possible moment may have helped, though....
President James Marshall (Air Force One): again, no obvious qualifications other than that he looks like Harrison Ford and once pushed a terrorist out of a flying Air Force One singlehandedly. His biggest achievement up to that was that he sent a SEAL team into Kazakhstan to assassinate the country's president on the ground that he was a dictator and a Nazi. (Which was apparently also Vladimir Putin's original plan for the Ukraine)
Just saying... If any foreign leader today would do what Harrison Ford pulled off in his 1997 movie, said president would immediately become public enemy number one of all the civilized world.
I actually heard about the Tom Clancy novels, he wasn’t voted president, he was made vice President after the former VP resigned, then became president by default after a Japanese terrorist assassinated the entire cabinet in basically an earlier 9/11.
I could see it. would have to butterfly out the plane accident but he could run as a populist Democrat from Oklahoma maybe in a timeline where FDR loses in 32?