Sorry but Bill Pullman in ‘Independence Day’ is America’s worst (fictional) president
The question of ranking America’s worst real presidents is left to better historians than us, but there is one area of presidential scholarship we feel confident in dissecting: The title of America’s worst fictional president. Although there are many contenders from both film and television — House of Cards’ inept Garrett Walker, the murderous Allen Richmond in Absolute Power, whoever the president was in Escape From New York — there can only be one president weak enough, one president incompetent enough, one president bad enough to top a list of buffoons, eugenicists and shapeshifting terrorists.
That man is Independence Day’s President Thomas J. Whitmore — and yes we’re going there.
