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Fake Presidents Podcast @fakepresidents.bsky.social · Sep 4

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?!

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Fake Presidents Podcast @fakepresidents.bsky.social · Sep 3

The Idris flick is this:

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Idris Elba as U.S. President Leads Kathryn Bigelow’s Nuclear War Thriller ‘A House of Dynamite’ to Powerful 11-Minute Venice Ovation

Kathryn Bigelow's gripping political thriller "A House of Dynamite" earned a standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday.

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Fake Presidents Podcast @fakepresidents.bsky.social · Sep 3

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?!?

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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.'

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Fake Presidents Podcast @fakepresidents.bsky.social · Sep 1

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

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Fake Presidents Podcast @fakepresidents.bsky.social · Aug 18

Fixed it.

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Fake Presidents Podcast @fakepresidents.bsky.social · Aug 2

This description of the movie for the Prime homepage was 100% written by an LLM (Longoria is barely in it)

A screengrab of from the Amazon Prime homepage that describes this movie starring Ice Cube -- and ONLY Ice Cube, Eva Longoria is barely in it -- as: "A gargantuan invasion is coming with this fresh take on the legendary novel of the same name. Renowned actress Eva Longoria is joined by iconic rapper and actor Ice Cube, along with Michael O'Neill and Iman Benson, for a thrilling out-of-this-world adventure that is filled with present-day themes of technology, surveillance, and privacy."

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Fake Presidents Podcast @fakepresidents.bsky.social · Aug 1

Did Amazon just drop ANOTHER fake president in 2025?!?

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‘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.

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Fake Presidents Podcast @fakepresidents.bsky.social · Jul 28

Cut for time! This tangent on the cancellation of Netflix’s THE RESIDENCE didn’t make it into our recent HEADS OF STATE episode…

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Fake Presidents Podcast @fakepresidents.bsky.social · Jul 25

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.

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Fake Presidents Podcast @fakepresidents.bsky.social · Jul 24

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.

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Fake Presidents Podcast @fakepresidents.bsky.social · Jul 2

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”

Fake Presidents Podcast @fakepresidents.bsky.social · Jun 23

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How Stella Got Her Nukes Back (MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - THE FINAL RECKONING, 2025)

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Fake Presidents Podcast @fakepresidents.bsky.social · Jun 23

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How Stella Got Her Nukes Back (MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - THE FINAL RECKONING, 2025)

Podcast Episode · Fake Presidents · 06/23/2025 · 1h

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Fake Presidents Podcast @fakepresidents.bsky.social · Jun 23

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

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Fake Presidents Podcast @fakepresidents.bsky.social · Jun 13

"America has a powerful new president... and her husband's on trial for MURDER"

Close up shot of the cover's tagline. On the left it says "America has a powerful new president"

On the right it says "...and her husband's on trial for MURDER."

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Fake Presidents Podcast @fakepresidents.bsky.social · Jun 13

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?

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Fake Presidents Podcast @fakepresidents.bsky.social · May 23

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Department of Homelander Security (G20, 2025)

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Fake Presidents Podcast @fakepresidents.bsky.social · May 23

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Department of Homelander Security (G20, 2025)

Podcast Episode · Fake Presidents · 05/23/2025 · 59m

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Fake Presidents Podcast @fakepresidents.bsky.social · May 23

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.

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Fake Presidents Podcast @fakepresidents.bsky.social · May 6

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

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Fake Presidents Podcast @fakepresidents.bsky.social · May 1

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?

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Fake Presidents Podcast @fakepresidents.bsky.social · May 1

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.

Fake Presidents Podcast @fakepresidents.bsky.social · Apr 24

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Only Murders In The White House (THE RESIDENCE, 2025)

Podcast Episode · Fake Presidents · 04/23/2025 · 1h

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Fake Presidents Podcast @fakepresidents.bsky.social · Apr 23

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.

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Fake Presidents Podcast @fakepresidents.bsky.social · Apr 23

We're not complaining.