Fake Presidents

Remember when you could talk about politics without it being hazardous to your health? We think we’ve found a loophole. Each episode, Eric Buchman and Ben Oren take a deep dive into a fictional American president from film or TV, to see just how much fiction there really is. It’s a podcast sorta about politics and kinda about pop culture, hosted by two former politicos turned TV writer/producers who’d much rather talk about real movies and fake politics than fake movies and real politics.

Follow the De Niro (ZERO DAY, 2025) 03/21/2025

This is POTUS (PARADISE, 2025) 03/13/2025

Red Hulk Gives You Wiiings (CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD, 2025) 02/17/2025

The Dude-In-Chief (THE CONTENDER, 2000) 02/01/2025

Mail to the Chief (YEAR END MAILBAG!) 12/22/2024

Banie Bros (THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, 2012) 11/26/2024

Quid Pro Cho (The Presidents of THE TWILIGHT ZONE) 10/30/2024

Bee Pluribus Unum (THE BEEKEEPER, 2024) 09/30/2024

Better Red Than Dead (STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY, 1991) 06/30/2024

HasbrOTUS (G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA, 2009) 05/30/2024

America Has Fallen (CIVIL WAR, 2024) 04/15/2024

Theater in the Oval (POTUS, the Tony-nominated play) 03/23/2024

Presidents Day Special 2024 02/19/2024

On the Campaign Trail(ers) 01/24/2024

Yes, Virginia, there is a Fake President (SOME WANNABE HALLMARK MOVIE YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF) 12/11/2023

Pulp Fictional President (RED, WHITE, AND ROYAL BLUE, 2023) 11/23/2023

Political Hacks (CHUCKY, the TV series) 10/26/2023

POTuuuuuHs (IDIOCRACY, 2006) 09/03/2023

Missionary Position (MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - DEAD RECKONING and SECRET INVASION) 08/09/2023

Tom Clancy's Nick Fury (JACK RYAN, Season 4 and SECRET INVASION Eps 3 & 4) 07/17/2023

My Best Friend's President (SECRET INVASION, Eps 1 & 2 + more FOR ALL MANKIND) 07/01/2023

You're the POTUS now, dawg! (THE ROCK, 1996) 05/29/2023

President Jerry Springer? 04/28/2023

See Jack Run (TOM CLANCY'S JACK RYAN, Seasons 1-3) 03/23/2023

Fake Fake Presidents (PRESIDENTS DAY SPECIAL 2023) 02/19/2023

POTUS Almighty (DEEP IMPACT, 1998) 01/17/2023

The POTUStronaut (FOR ALL MANKIND, Seasons 1-3) 09/08/2022

The X-President (X2: X-MEN UNITED, 2003) 07/27/2022

The Ameri-Caan President (GET SMART, 2008) 07/13/2022

PRESIDENTS' DAY SPECIAL: Movies that don't have fake presidents...but should! 02/17/2022