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[redrikki]

Quick question, what is up with politics in Supernatural? Dean makes an Obama joke in About A Boy, and Kaia mentions Trump's America in The Bad Place, but Satan's host in LOTUS is none of the above? Was Obama only president for one term, then what's-his-face, then Trump?

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[li_izumi]

My headcanon was President what's-his-face stepped down when he got depossessed (or died. we know how hard Lucifer is on his bodies) and Trump had been the VP so is now president.

[lurea]

Wow! Good headcanon--I like it!

[lizbobjones]

Yep, I think that too... I think it's close enough in time, when SPN's timeline is an actual mess and operates in 2 different years depending on whether it's the set department or script, that Obama served his full 2 terms, and then Rooney got elected and then somehow Trump showed up afterwards.

It all doesn't make sense on such a grand scale you kind of just have to go with it :')

[redrikki]

Interesting theory. Also, we've seen that being de-possessed by angels can cause brain damage, so it's possible that he was removed for being mentally/physically unfit for office under the 25th Amendment.

Although I can't actually see Trump settling for VP, I do like the idea of a sort of flipped Trump-Pence ticket with the religious president What's-his-face as the Pence stand-in.

[vhenans]

The joke here is that being mentally or physically unfit would get you removed from the presidency.

[dorkilysoulless]

I'm still working out where Rooney should fit in. He's a Buckleming creation, and kind of shoehorned in from nowhere -- he's the first real divorce from real political figures that the show has ever indulged? -- and once he stopped being a plot device, things went back to their usual.

I think Rooney was only president long enough to be a plot device.

[redrikki]

Honesty, he makes more sense as a candidate in 2016 the the actual president. They still get secret service protection and it would explain why he was staying at some rich friend's compound for a speaking engagement.