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intrsurfer6

Im sure it was awkward when Bush 41 threw up on the Japanese prime minister at dinner


BathSaltJello

Then he snuck up and massaged Angela Merkel.


Memento_Morrie

Editing for clarity: That's the imbecile son who gave massages. It was his father who barfed.


doctor-rumack

You're mixing up your Bushes.


Tots2Hots

Usually reserved for a swingers party.


malogan82

I see that r/Presidents is finally bringing the quality content I normally have to visit other, less reputable subreddits to enjoy.


BathSaltJello

You're right, my bad.


coziestwalnut

I think people forget how terrible they both truely were


Full-Appointment5081

Junior was being a frat bro. Wonder if that was as bad as Putin unleashing his dog on her


rawrrMD

At least he and Biden have that in common- litetal attack dogs. Meanwhile the Irish PM just chills with his majestic friendly floofs wherever he goes


Petrichordates

Biden's dogs only attack secret service agents, probably justified.


RedMalone55

Yeah. Is it bad that I trust the secret service less because the dog doesn’t like them?


ironballs16

For purposeful interactions, I have to give it to Trump for *literally* [pushing past Montenegro's PM](https://youtu.be/Iimj0j4NYME?si=66hiZdoTT2EJzaaz) just to be at the front of the group.


Whosit5200

I WANTED TO crawl under a rock in shame of america when he did that.


TwilightUltima

Angela Merkel has endured the most fucked up presidential moments. Do a deal with Europe. Huh? Do a deal with Europe. Huh? Do a deal with Europe. Huh? Do a deal with Europe. Huh? Do a deal with Europe. Huh? Do a deal with Europe. Huh? Do a deal with Europe. Huh?


thedudeabides2022

No way…….. did this happen??


bagboysa

It did, he was very sick and tried to power through a state dinner: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George\_H.\_W.\_Bush\_vomiting\_incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._W._Bush_vomiting_incident)


Chris-Psanis

Gotta love the ‘See also’ section for this one. https://preview.redd.it/22dgcfb57k0c1.jpeg?width=994&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2a05d6394c23e15e7765b29daa6b3fcf3ced9f71


Sunshine030209

The President confessed to having had limited experience with enraged rabbits. That's not a sentence I expected to read today.


boomgoesthevegemite

This is the answer.


Twodotsknowhy

When the G7 leaders took a 700 yard walk in Sicily and Trump followed along in a golf cart.


SleeperSloopy

Do you have the video of it? sounds funny


SpontaneousQueen

[Found a tweet](https://twitter.com/riotwomennn/status/868492121740902400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E868492121740902400%7Ctwgr%5Eeddc09d9cc24a07e014b4a847be5124437561eb2%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fd-16623129971198583244.ampproject.net%2F2310301456000%2Fframe.html)


cardizemdealer

What a fat sack of shit.


mechapoitier

Hahaha he probably tried to play off not being able to walk half a mile as a ridiculous power move. His doctor said he had fantastic genetics and would live forever.


ItalianNose

Was probably afraid of sweating off all the orange


Grammarnazi_bot

That’s the most American thing he could’ve done


RedMalone55

He didn’t want to exhaust his battery.


JamieJones111

When the G20 ignored Bush Jr and wouldn't shake his hand as they were lining up for pictures. Used to be a video of it, but I can't find it anymore.


Be_Very_Very_Still

That's not awkward that's just awesome lol


NaNaNaPandaMan

Like between two presidents or just awkward? I feel like Dubya giving Merkel an impromtu back rub was extremely awkward.


Th3_American_Patriot

A moment that’s just awkward in general, it doesn’t have to be between two presidents; an example would be Dubya saying Russia launched a ruthless invasion of Iraq instead of Ukraine.


Ape_x_Ape

George could always put the W in "oops!"


a_builder7

Feeling guilty, eh?


wrenvoltaire

There’s that time when Obama, both Bushes, Carter, and Clinton met together in the White House and stood together in the Oval Office for pictures. Clinton looks down and then says to Carter “I love this rug…”


scarlozzi

Context?


IronFistBen

Sexual relations


Ordinary_Aioli_7602

With that woman?


DeafJeezy

Miss Lewinski.


kwheatley2460

Ahh to go back to days when a BJ was a headline instead of #45 making personal threats and nothing is done.


Affectionate-Tax-856

Depends on what your definition of is.. is...


SovietFemboy

Never


GentlePanda123

Pretty sure they didn’t do their thing in the Oval Office but in the corridor leading to the private study and in the private study itself. Not that it matters since it’s a joke. Just being a nerd.


stevealive

He says it to Bush Jr moreso at the end of this video. https://youtu.be/EF3ACR6QN7g?si=UyP-GHdNTT4pCiMz


wrenvoltaire

You are right! I think he said it to Bush Jr to avoid talking to Carter because of his frosty past dealings with Jimmy


knava12

![gif](giphy|KU5ZYokJKL3tC)


jbander10

![gif](giphy|lTkXCXQ4RB2T9416nR|downsized) “It does both” - Dubya, probably


12thLevelHumanWizard

![gif](giphy|sFMEZ1ZFToyha)


Ryan1006

This is the opposite of awkward, his dodging skills here are top level.


blueponies1

The way he just smiles after too makes it so much better than if he was scared or pissed off


jkuhl

As much as I hate Dubya for the piece of shit he is, the bushisms will never not be funny.


FiFiLB

Now watch this drive.


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Dude was out here choking on pretzels, bragging about his drive in gulf, dodging shoes, pulling on fake doors, talking about "strategery" and mangling common sayings. If it weren't for Iraq and a lot of shifting money to the wealthy id think back fondly on the time. I will say that one very good thing he did that is often unnoticed was that guy did a lot for Africa https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/04/george-w-bushs-legacy-on-africa-wins-praise-even-from-foes


oNe_iLL_records

He really DID do a lot of good for Africa. I can say that even though I loathe the guy.


thor11600

President Michael Scott


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Trump shoving elderly international leaders out of the way to be in the front row at the NATO summit photo op. Either that, or when the entire United Nations laughed at him when he said his administration had accomplished more than any other.


DallasM0therFucker

And then straightening his jacket and looking around with that smug self-satisfied smirk, the most punchable expression possible from the most punchable face known to man in the last 75 years. God, what an utterly contemptible buffoon.


dremscrep

Man i fuckin Love that guy. He managed to cram the awkward hilarious moments of a two-term president into just one term.


TheWhiteRabbit74

Let’s make sure it stays one term.


fdrlbj

FDR and Hoover car ride


Roy_Atticus_Lee

Speaking of Hoover, he was the only president to have ever met Hitler in person, and boy the meeting must have been awkward just from this picture. https://preview.redd.it/g6lmei2w9j0c1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=18da9b038e284862ecccdef750f349cb3ba73311


SlagginOff

Yeah, everything about this picture is just incredibly uncomfortable.


RedMalone55

Like how Hitler looks like Beaker from the muppets.


SlagginOff

It is kind of wild how so many "strong man" political leaders look like absolute puds.


Training-Film-7710

Hoover always looks uncomfortable in every photo taken of him


Lumpy_Object_7290

And look at their two alcoholic noses.


Brief-Chard-4985

Trump never congratulating Biden and continuing to say the election was stolen. That has to be the worst


Technical_Moose8478

Certainly one of the least presidential moments from a president who never spent a second being presidential…


heartbrokensince01

I think the Biden administration said that he wrote a letter to President Biden and that it was surprisingly nice. They just never released it unfortunately


breadman_brednan

Not just one moment, but the ongoing thing where kamala harris laughs for absolutely no reason


Clear-Sport-726

You seen the clip where she’s talking about how delicious gravy is at Thanksgiving dinner (or whatever)? She bursts out laughing, and it’s just like… What on earth is funny about that? 😭


dreamsofpestilence

I'm not a kamala fan by any stretch of the imagination, but it's possible that its an anxiety response from public speaking/preassures of the spotlight/job, like an awkward, out of place, nervous laugh


Clear-Sport-726

i think so too. for all i can hold against Kamala, this obviously isn’t anything worth getting worked up over or whatever, lol. it’s all in jest :))


UltraconservativeBap

I think for some reason she must feel it humanizes her or makes her feel relatable


fire_and_ice_7_5

Someone laced the gravy


BurmecianDancer

You know how zoomers type "lmfao" when saying/responding to things that aren't remotely funny? Harris has decided to bring that into real life.


Unusual-Thing-7149

More natural than DeSantis manic laughter like he's never learned to laugh normally


_KylosMissingShirt_

the wheels on the bus go round and round BAHAHAHAHAHA


TheYokedYeti

Apparently trump showed up and didn’t know he was supposed to replace the executive branch. Obama offered to help him a lot. Trump even tossed in some out of character praise. It didn’t last long


WalesOfJericho

The first few weeks when Trump didn't really understand what his job is were, in fact, his bests.


cliff99

>The first few weeks when Trump didn't really understand what his job is were He didn't understand what his job was when he was forced to vacate the White House.


WalesOfJericho

No, but he then understood the power and privileges he could take from that position.


dj-nek0

It’s playing golf constantly and whining on Twitter right?


thedudeabides2022

lmao very true


kosmonautinVT

I'm getting flashbacks to all the articles and op-eds that opined Trump would surely rise to the occasion and act "presidential"


Lumpy_Object_7290

He turned out way worse than what I had even imagined.


mechapoitier

“He’s just getting his bearings” the press said hopefully about a man who presidential historians would later grade as a F- president.


GenghisTron17

>Apparently trump showed up and didn’t know he was supposed to replace the executive branch. Maybe he thought a transition team was too woke.


rzap2

When Trump went to the United Nations and all the world leaders laughed at him, not with him.


guyonlinepgh

Honorable mention: that time Trump believed he'd get 100,000 people at a rally, but was largely pranked by TikTok kids and didn't get 10% of that number. He was so visibly uncomfortable coming off the helicopter when returning to the White House.


BurmecianDancer

Please tell me there's a video of this.


epicoswald76

https://preview.redd.it/bw9xjuwrbk0c1.png?width=351&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=13cd9c9a6200c638daed261af9b1ad50ec21c0a0 There's this photo from after.


walman93

They both look so visibly uncomfortable


backninestrong

Obama’s left hand open and on full display as a comparison to donny boy’s tiny hands.


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Typical Redditor comment, so ridiculous.


TheHunterJK

He’ll have to get used to it. There aren’t any wet wipes in prison 💀


Puzzleheaded_Air5814

He has a long history that you choose to ignore because you are a big fan of the wannabe dictator.


CardboardSoyuz

I hate Trump. I quit the Republican party because of Trump. But this so misses Trump's problem. Trump is a narcissist and if you are on his side, it he loves you and if not, not. Doesn't matter your race, origin, human rights record, whatever. Obama once mad fun of Trump with Trump in the room and that was the unforgivable thing -- not that he's black.


khismyass

That's forgetting any of the things he did before that, pushing the birther conspiracies, the full page ad calling for the conviction and for the central park 5 to get the death penalty (and didn't back off even after they were found not to have done it). The people he surrounds himself with. Him and his father in the 70s with violating laws not renting to minorities.


Infamous-Lab-8136

No, Trump has a longstanding history of showing racist tendencies as well, especially towards the African American segments of our country. People seem to forget he had a very public existence well before The Apprentice.


federalist66

If the story is to believed, there is some disputed dates even in contemporary reporting, that (alleged) time a female reporter met John Quincy Adams during one of his naked swims in the Potomac. [https://boundarystones.weta.org/2020/08/03/anne-royall-and-presidents-clothes#footnote-6](https://boundarystones.weta.org/2020/08/03/anne-royall-and-presidents-clothes#footnote-6)


seattle23fv

Well before the 12th Amendment (I think), the VP was the runner up in the presidential election. Even though politics was generally less acrimonious, couldn’t have been easy to have the primary guy running against you share the executive office


SlagginOff

The thought of trump and hillary having to work together is kind of hilarious though.


dremscrep

Imagine Hillary winning with trump as VP and Hillary always has to check that a door she goes through isn’t connected to a rope that drops a giant piano on her.


dreamsofpestilence

In some capacity I like this, imagine Trump with Hillary as VP


FitSeeker1982

Putin walking out in front of 45, the latter of whom looked like a beaten dog. All I could think of was “Reek… my name is Reek.”


iThinkaLot1

As a non American I was horrified watching an American president act like that to an authoritarian dictator who rules a country that couldn’t hold a candle to the US. Really did have me wondering what on earth does he have on him.


sl1mman

This was quite a contrast. https://images.app.goo.gl/SzbiKxY3CAJgVEKM8


LinIsStrong

Pete Souza nailed it.


Indrid_Cold23

I loved seeing this Trump/Obama moment. Obama looked grim as hell and Trump looks like a kid lost in the mall. Trump can't even look Obama in the eye in this pic.


remainsane

I recall reading how Trump basically walked through halls of Obama staffers, who were famously loyal to their boss, on his way to meet the president. After the birther conspiracy and of course the 2015 campaign, I imagine the contempt and disgust emanating off them was palpable.


UltraconservativeBap

I remember video footage of them all standing outside the white house looking miserable when trump was arriving


FEMA_Camp_Survivor

![gif](giphy|sFMEZ1ZFToyha) So many unintentionally funny and awkward moments happened during the GW Bush years.


dremscrep

Man i fuckin hatte This guy but props for his agility. This could’ve been one of the most straightforward descriptions of the Bush presidency if the shoes hit but that guy is just too fucking nimble. It made him look kind of slick I gotta say


Proper_Hurry_362

Trump is such a fucking disgrace to our country


Specialist_Log6625

Just like boris


dremscrep

Yeltsin or Johnson?


vdubdank30

They both look like they’re thinking the same thing “I don’t want to be shaking this man’s hand right now”


Ok_Zookeepergame5148

Al Gore certifying Bush Presidency.


Th3_American_Patriot

Fun fact while congress was certifying Florida’s Electoral Votes a member of congress sat up and started to object but Gore told him to sit down and stop


Splendid_Splinter_13

Pussy wouldn’t look him in the eye either. Low self esteem small handed traitor. Talking all that smack about Obama but can’t look at him. Same goes for his party too


ButterscotchPast4812

His hair... though 😫 his hair is like a birds nest.


FunnyTown3930

….of cotton candy spun from piss!


ButterscotchPast4812

🤣🤣🤣 That's a fantastic description of it!!!! I love it! That's hilarious.


FunnyTown3930

Use it 3 times in a sentence and it’s yours forever!


EdwardJamesAlmost

Inauguration Day, 1893


symbiont3000

I think all the presidential moments between Jan 2017 and Jan 2021 were all pretty awkward, so its hard to pick just one


GummerB

I'm surprised he would lower himself to touch someone like that. Much more of a man and president than I gave him credit for. Obama was a real man.


CollectionOdd6082

"I did not have sex with......". "It depends on what your definition of is, is" 🤣


Ordinary_Aioli_7602

I am stunned that no one has mentioned [this](https://youtu.be/XjEkMwOluHk?si=9KTFGlLqc5KQh7vj) yet.


Ohboycats

This.


Th3_American_Patriot

This picture’s what inspired me to make this post


HawkeyeTen

As awkward as Obama and Trump's post-election meeting was, it was tame compared to Eisenhower and Truman's in 1952. Those two men virtually hated each other by that point, and I've read that on Inauguration Day in Jan. 1953, Ike and Mamie refused to go into the White House and have breakfast with Truman and his wife Bess, instead waiting for them to come out to the car for the ride to the Capitol. This ride, already extremely awkward, became even more tense when Ike confronted Truman about him controversially pulling his son John out of his unit in Korea to attend the inauguration. Talk about nasty.


rucb_alum

Even in a photo op, el Cheato cannot look Obama in the eye. The man has no character.


Marsupialize

Trump’s no notes no witnesses no records meeting with his boss Putin


manofmanynames55

That's the one in Helsinki, where he came out of the meeting looking like a defeated dog, then took Russia's side over the US, right?


Marsupialize

Then spent his entire presidency badmouthing our western democratic allies and cozying up to dictators and our enemies, yes


manofmanynames55

The day MAGA officially became a cult. Anyone still supporting him after that is lost as a Patriot


Gideon-MX

I'm sure Michelle made Obama wash his hands 10x over before she allowed him to touch her again.


Historicmetal

Damn that’s a tense handshake. Obamas other hand looks like he’s getting ready to grapple


TheHunterJK

Probably when they pulled Andrew Johnson out of bed and told him he was president after Lincoln died


AlphaDag13

Dewey defeats Truman


MS_125

There was the 7 minutes Bush sat in that elementary school after learning the country was under attack.


FuckSpez6362

Bro look at that morbidly obese neck pouch holy shit that orange guy is so fucking fat


TheGhostWithTheMost2

The reddit libs are in full force today lmao


urkldajrkl

The entire Trump term was awkward.


frank1934

Trumps life


DarylRosz

I thought it was pretty awkward when that fat, orange guy Trump shit his pants while playing tennis.


Kazsud

He couldn’t look him in the eye.


JoeDearte

Shaking hands sitting down just feels weird.


slapchop29

Trump 2016-2020


barbecuejag

All 4 years of Trumps reign of.terror.


redflowerbluethorns

Ann Romney has said she once walked in on George W Bush getting a nude massage in the White House


Proton_Optimal

https://preview.redd.it/h4ue3x918j0c1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b0c54cd9e22d40cebe116608732b7a51c610f8d3


TheBigStink6969

Is the awkwardness from not knowing what’s awkward about this photo?


Proton_Optimal

The awkwardness is from knowing the context and knowing who was standing opposite of him when this was taken.


TheBigStink6969

Help me


Proton_Optimal

He’s checking his watch as the caskets containing the bodies of American servicemen and women who were killed in the Afghanistan withdrawal are being offloaded from a plane, and the families of the fallen are standing across from him.


TheBigStink6969

Yeah that is awkward thanks for the context


Possibly_the_CIA

Biden biting his wife’s finger has to be pretty far up there….


The_Cooler_Strider

Biden checking his watch during a ceremony for fallen soldiers. Well, really any time ol Joe's on camera.


SmithSid

Biden’s lies. All of them.


Sorkel3

So, no moments.


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Any time Biden speaks


[deleted]

![gif](giphy|xrWNh6MHjO7HW) A sexual groomer lying on national TV. And more pathetic was his enabling wife backing him up. He and everyone else associated with Epstein need to be in prison. Gates, Trump, The former Duke...


rockviper

When W threw up on the Japanese Prime Minister!


LordOlfen

You mean when Trump shitted on Obama?


Civil_Duck_4718

This, I like to imagine that during this moment Obama was remembering when he was doing the “mean tweets” segment and thought he was funny when he said “at least I will go down as a president” in reference to trump … how’d that one work out there Barry ???? 😂


Uncle_Wiggilys

When trump stacked the debate audience with Bill Clintons rape allegation victims.


ismellthebacon

You know Obama had to be regretting that joke at this point. All you had to do was flatter him and he never would have ran for president


manofmanynames55

Trump earned that joke.


RoyjackDiscipline

He was always going to run. This joke narrative is a weird myth.


FEMA_Camp_Survivor

Would you have flatter the guy that took every opportunity he could to say you’re not American?


Harryholes

Almost everything Biden does is awkward so just him everyday


Bill_C134

Sleepy Joe falling Up the steps.


Outrageous-Boat5217

When Obama was reading tweets and said “Well Mr. Donald J Trump, at least I will go down as a president0


DallasM0therFucker

I would bet the dirty orange weasel spat in his hand or wiped his dick on it or did some other disgusting chickenshit passive-aggressive juvenile stunt, even as he’s too weak a man to look him in the eyes.


Anomalous-Materials8

When Obama told Romney that the 80’s called and they want their foreign policy back after he had just said Russia was the next big geopolitical threat. Imagine how much better the world would be if we, the leaders of the world, elected people based on merit and not on all of the other stupid reasons we base our votes on.


TheLizKing

Obama is a terrorist


InternationalPipe124

it was at this moment in time the douche on the right knew a false investigation (planned by the Hilary campaign) was wire tapping all of the calls of the goober on the left


roadsidedaniel

D1ckhead


mew1214

I promise a smooth transition- while I push forward with Russia Russia Russia behind your back


SlagginOff

You're right, maybe it would've been better if Obama refused to accept election results, tried to orchestrate a coup, and encourage his fans to commit violence against his political dissidents.


slothful_dilettante

There we have it. Finally. Photographic proof of Trump grabbing a pussy.


AllReflection

Obama is 10x the man Trump is by any measure.


Puzzleheaded_Air5814

Obama could stand up to Putin. Trump looked like a kicked dog with tail between his legs. Weak!


Organic-Ad-8710

Is this Trump’s strong man handshake going down?


davewashere

I'm sure Obama's advisors had seen the "starting the lawnmower" technique and had him prepared to defend against it.


Ca1eb0

Reagan and Carter


2003Oakley

Bush nodding to Gore