They can't all be Jed Bartlet.
President Merkin Muffley is trying his best, but he doesn’t have what it takes to avert nuclear war — or even stop his staff from fighting in the war room.
After abandoning his family and letting Martians run roughshod over Earth, President James Dale delivers an inspiring speech only to be gruesomely killed seconds later.
Escape from New York’s president — who shows no gratitude after he’s rescued from kidnappers or remorse for the people he got killed — is so unlikeable he doesn’t even get a name. (He also had a British accent.)
Snake Plissken’s second presidential run-in is with this theocrat who imprisons anyone he disagrees with in L.A. after an earthquake turns the city into an island.
President Snow uses every trick in the tyrant’s book, culminating in the perverse Hunger Games competition, which forces children to fight to the death.