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Welcome to FAKE PRESIDENTS, a real podcast about, well...you know. Each week we'll take a deep dive into a fictional American president from movies and TV to see just how much fiction there really is.

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Beating John Malkovich (IN THE LINE OF FIRE, 1993)

Jan 17, 2022

Before Wolfgang Peterson directed AIR FORCE ONE (where the Secret Service completely craps the bed), he directed IN THE LINE OF FIRE (where the Secret Service almost craps the bed!)

Clint Eastwood plays a heroic but haunted secret service agent while a pre-famous John Malkovich plays the assassin Eastwood has to...

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Dueling Clintons, SNL, some Succession chat, and more (Buh-Bye 2021, Hello 2022!)

Jan 1, 2022

We take one last look back at the fake presidencies of 2021 before looking ahead to 2022. Topics include:

- Our favorite fictional presidents of the last 12 months

- Succession

- Diary of a Future President

- Presidential impersonator changes at Saturday Night Live

- Competing novels featuring fictional presidents...

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