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Fake Presidents Podcast
@fakepresidents.bsky.social
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Where Hollywood Blvd meets Pennsylvania Ave
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fake-presidents/id1534271937
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fakepresidents.bsky.social
Happy Thanksgiving! Just uploaded, us talking about three things that have nothing to do with the holiday...
November 27, 2025 at 9:31 AM
fakepresidents.bsky.social
yeah, there was a whole Ice Cube movie about this
Screencap of a headline from vehicular-based news blog Jalopnik: "So it turns out most satellites don't encrypt your data, and anyone can listen in"
November 20, 2025 at 2:53 AM
fakepresidents.bsky.social
Is this from WHITE HOUSE DOWN or OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN?
The White House’s current “construction” looks more like it’s been destroyed by terrorists in a 2010’s action film
October 22, 2025 at 9:38 AM
fakepresidents.bsky.social
We’re still here, our September episode got a little delayed due to, you know, our non-podcast lives. But it’s coming!
October 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
fakepresidents.bsky.social
Cut for time from our WAR OF THE WORLDS (2025) episode. After the passings of Julian McMahon and Hulk Hogan, Ben and Eric ask what does it REALLY mean to "die in Clearwater"? Which then leads to a new game: Scientologist or Pro wrestler?!
September 4, 2025 at 6:09 AM
fakepresidents.bsky.social
First we read about an upcoming Netflix movie with Idris Elba as a U.S. President, then, in the same day, we read about this?!?

deadline.com/2025/09/cary...
Cary Elwes To Get Presidential In FX’s ‘Very Young Frankenstein’ Pilot
Cary Elwes is set to play the President of the United States in his second Mel Brooks project, FX's 'Very Young Frankenstein.'
deadline.com
September 3, 2025 at 2:03 AM
fakepresidents.bsky.social
Happy Labor Day Weekend!

You know what also was a labor? Watching this 👇
Promo art for an episode of the Fake Presidents podcast on 2025’s Amazon Prime Video release WAR OF THE WORLDS featuring a lot of images of Ice Cube making various exasperated expressions as he looks in the direction of the camera, since that’s what the 90% of the “movie” is
September 1, 2025 at 1:31 AM
fakepresidents.bsky.social
Fixed it.
Screenshot from the 1998 movie Deep Impact where Tea Leoni plays an MSNBC newscaster, except the MSNBC logo has been crudely and cheaply -- AND WITHOUT THE HELP OF ANY AI -- replaced with "MS NOW"
August 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
fakepresidents.bsky.social
Did Amazon just drop ANOTHER fake president in 2025?!?

variety.com/2025/film/re...
‘War of the Worlds’ Review: Ice Cube Headlines a Disastrous Movie Retelling of H.G. Wells’ Alien-Invasion Classic
The action is limited to glitchy video clips and whatever else might appear on a surveillance expert's screen in a cheap-looking thriller that suggests Amazon Prime as Earth's one-stop solution.
variety.com
August 1, 2025 at 7:57 PM
fakepresidents.bsky.social
Cut for time! This tangent on the cancellation of Netflix’s THE RESIDENCE didn’t make it into our recent HEADS OF STATE episode…
July 28, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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We're on it.
‘Rick & Morty’ Lands A Presidential Spinoff At Adult Swim
Keith David, who voices the President of the USA in Adult Swim’s Rick and Morty, is getting his own spinoff.
deadline.com
July 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
fakepresidents.bsky.social
Ahem.
Promotional artwork for the latest episode of the Fake Presidents Podcasts featuring the "one-sheet" poster for the 2025 Amazon Prime movie HEADS OF STATE. On the poster are John Cena, Idris Elba, and Priyanka Chopra-Jonas, leaning against a beat-up armored limousine (the President's "Beast" vehicular transportation), looking like they've just beein a fight, as vague Italian landmarks burn behind them. Also in the promo are close-up shots from the movie of John Cena in Air Force One looking smug, Carla Cugino looking curious, Jack Quaid looking both geeky and well-armed with a machine gun, and a still image of Elba and Cena ducking behind a wall to avoid gunfire as they hold machine guns themselves.
July 24, 2025 at 4:48 AM
fakepresidents.bsky.social
Anyone got any Fourth of July plans? We do…
Character poster from new Amazon original movie HEADS OF STATE featuring a dramatically angled 3/4 body shot of John Cena in front of giant (skyscraper-sized) letters that say “The PRESIDENT”
July 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
fakepresidents.bsky.social
Time to take a look at a Fake President so badass, she even got her own character poster...
Promotional artwork for the Fake Presidents podcast episode on Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning. The artwork places two posters side-by-side, one featuring Tom Cruise handing from an airplane, and the other featuring Angela Bassett giving the most severe sideeye ever captured on film
June 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Spotted at airport. Not the first Clinton and Patterson collab about fake presidents (and their spouses). But will it be the first finally get a big and/or small screen adaptation?
Cover of new novel in high profile location at an airport book stand. In giant letters, it's authored by BILL CLINTON and JAMES PATTERSON (in that order). And it's titled THE FIRST GENTLEMEN
June 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
fakepresidents.bsky.social
Join us as we head to the G20 summit to see if potus Viola Davis can single-handedly fend off Homelander to save 19 other world leaders (and maybe also the entire world economy!) in... Amazon Prime's "G20"!
Promo artwork for the Fake Presidents podcast episode on Amazon Prime's movie g20, featuring imagery of star Viola Davis wearing a fancy red dress while holding a machine gun; villianous Antony Starr looking evil as he takes Viola hostage, and an image of the First Family in happier times as Viola and First Gentleman Anthony Anderson pose with their two teenage kids.
May 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
fakepresidents.bsky.social
Us watching "G20" on Amazon Prime
Screengrab from Amazon Prime movie G20 with Antony Starr screaming at Viola Davis that she is "a fake president!" Meme of Leo DiCaprio pointing, as captured from Once Upon a Time In Hollywood
May 6, 2025 at 7:59 PM
fakepresidents.bsky.social
So other than the new MISSION IMPOSSIBLE, what other summer movies should be on our radar? Any chance SUPERMAN or FANTASTIC FOUR or ELIO or even the new NAKED GUN includes a fake u.s. pres?
May 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM
fakepresidents.bsky.social
Now watching Amazon Prime's "Die Hard at an international summit" movie G20 with Viola Davis and Anthony Starr...
Promotional still image from the movie "G20" with a beaten down (but not out) Viola Davis (looking ripped) as a U.S. President taken hostage by a typically evil Anthony Starr (Homelander on THE BOYS) looks down on her. A bevy of international flags line the background.
May 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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New episode up! #TheResidence #Netflix
Episodic artwork for an episode of the Fake Presidents podcast about the Netflix series THE RESIDENCE, which premiered in March. The features people looking quirky in the White House, with some kind of tomfoolery afoot.
April 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
fakepresidents.bsky.social
Wait. Amazon Prime just released G20 with Viola Davis as a kickass President this month... and coming this summer they got THIS coming out, too?!? What's in the water at Amazon?!?

youtu.be/8J646zM7UM8?...
Heads of State - Official Trailer | Prime Video
YouTube video by Prime Video
youtu.be
April 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Yeah, yeah, we covered Netflix's ZERO DAY. Don't get too excited.
Promotional artwork for en episode of the FAKE PRESIDENTS podcast on the Netflix series ZERO DAY starring Robert De Niro, Angela Bassett, Matthew Modine, Joan Allen, Connie Britton, Jesse Plemons, and Lizzy Caplan. Everyone looks serious in a series of serious photos in this show about an investigation into a deadly cyber attack.
March 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Just uploaded and rolling out to podcast apps across the globe...
Promo artwork for an episode of the Fake Presidents podcast featuring images of James Marsden at a U.S. President and Sterling K. Brown as a secret service agent. The show's tagline is "Read between the lies."
March 13, 2025 at 7:18 PM
fakepresidents.bsky.social
Going through our old notes on "upcoming projects to keep track of" and this one, sadly, appears to have never gotten off the ground:

(the article is from January 2022)
‘White House Doctor’ Drama Produced By Alyssa Milano In Works At Fox
Fox has given a script commitment with penalty to White House Doctor, a one-hour drama based on Dr. Connie Mariano's memoir, from Alyssa Milano and her Peace by Peace Productions.
deadline.com
March 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM
fakepresidents.bsky.social
This is dangerously close to the bullshit, car-centric, PR nonsense that Kevin Kline singles out in a White House cabinet meeting as being a complete waste of time & money in DAVE (1993)
mattmfm.bsky.social Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · Mar 11
It’s truly insane that the economy is in a free fall and the president, who doesn’t drive, is spending his time giving a PR boost to the car brand of his billionaire buddy.
March 11, 2025 at 7:47 PM