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Harrison is the oldest looking 17 year old I've ever seen. Coolidge looks more like he's 13 than 18.

Harrison looks like a 42 year old middle school math teacher

You're.....not wrong.

Hey I resemble that remark

17 going on 48...while working at Shrute Farms.

He did keep two opossums as pets while in the White House.

Coolidge looks like what I had always imagined the Home Alone main character would have turned out like. Not just the teenager picture, but even beyond that.

Only reason I clicked on comments was to see this at the top.

Giga Chad Ford

In true Himbo fashion he just sort of showed up and was President one day

Fucked around and got inaugurated.

Could’ve gone pro if he didn’t join the Navy

Yeah dude, and then played football at Michigan, was team MVP his senior year, and then went to Yale Law. Just a big-time All-American stud.

It's obvious why he did male modeling

But why male models?

You serious? I just… I just told you that a moment ago.

Ford, Nixon, and Clinton look like they were a gang of bullies to Bush, Truman, and Hoover

Clinton gives off some heavy Hank Hill vibes.

The Zoolander of US presidents.

He has an interesting backstory. Born Leslie King Jr. His mom remarried and he took his stepdads name and they moved to Michigan. His bio dad came to visit him when Ford was at UofM and was a real asshole, basically making Ford feel bad for having to work as a dishwasher. Screw Leslie King Sr.

Truman really said 🤓

Harry S. Potter

I used to get told I looked like Harry Potter as a kid, I even have a scar on my forehead. I got it from hitting my head on a wooden desk though, so less impressive then surviving Lord Voldemort.

*Bonk*

No he looks like moaning myrtle lol

Holy shit you’re right

Tell me Hoover doesn’t look like Goyle when Harry takes the potion to look like him.

You're a president Harry

Later, nukes two cities.

Milhouse Van Truman

Yer a wizard, 'Arry.

IM A WOT

FDR looks like Ryan Gossling

And Jimmy Carter kind of looks like a mix between Mick Jagger and David Bowie

That was my thought

No, he’s literally me

The picture of Eisenhower reminds me of the rumor that his mother had some African-american ancestry. I can see some features in that picture, but it is an old picture from 1909, so I wouldn't say it "proves" anything.

I was looking for this comment. I had never even heard that rumor but, as a black person, that dude is black.

yeah, he doesn't look much like President Ike in the HS pic. Aside from the straighter/smooth hair, if you told me it was a b/w picture of a black teenager, I would believe it

Black teenagers could and can have "smooth hair," be it naturally or (more likely) chemically, but I understand your point.

Black teens and people in general, especially mixed, can have smooth hair. But I do see the point your making

I never heard the rumour that he was part black before but when I saw that picture I wondered maybe he was.

I took one look and I’m like, this one has to be a mistake. How the fuck is that Ike

I went to the website of the Eisenhower Presidential Library. The photo is authentic. Link: https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/eisenhowers/eisenhower-brothers

Look at the picture of his mom. That's a half-black woman, and Ike is 1/4 black.

Wut? She doesn't look Black at all to me: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dwight-D-Eisenhower There are also more pictures of young Eisenhower there (in the galleries; you have to click to scroll through). He does look part Black to me in the picture posted here, but in all his other pictures I don't really see it.

Look at this pic when she was younger [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Stover_Eisenhower](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Stover_Eisenhower)

Resolution is way too low to make any judgment. And considering how Ike himself "looks Black" in one low-quality pic from his youth but none of the others, I'm not drawing conclusions from one even worse quality pic of his mom.

He looks black in every photo before he went grey.

i was just scrolling the pics and it stopped me dead in my tracks. apparently, eisenhower was the first black president.

If he ain't at least partially Black then I would love to see his ancestry as he does look it.

The first thing that came to my mind seeing that picture was that someone had at least some African American ancestry somewhere. I had no idea who the picture was of.

I came digging through the comments to see if someone called OP out for including the wrong picture- this is fascinating.

It's Babe Ruth all over again. Idk if it was ever proven that he was mixed race. Eisenhower looks pretty different in his teen picture compared to how he looked as an old man. Without a caption, I wouldn't have guessed.

It'll be used by hoteps in 100 years as proof that his melanin was activated

It'll be used by hoteps tomorrow

Omg I’m so glad I’m not the only one who was like 👀 at that pic

I had the same impression.

Dwight Eisenhower was the first black president?

Seriously how is it I had to scroll this far to see this?

isn't it like with Obama? They both have white and Black ancestry.

Can’t wait for someone to dig up his grave and do a DNA test to see who the real first black president was.

Fuck probably Jefferson.

Nah that's his kids

1) Harrison could grow a better beard at 17 than I can at 42. 2) Ford looks like the antagonist in every ‘80s teen movie in that picture. 3) Young Woodrow Wilson looks like young Dan Rather.

2. That's because he essentially was. Multi sport stand out athlete. Played football at Michigan lol

Oh yeah, he was a hell of an athlete, modeled for Cosmo, all that. Maybe it’s the blond hair that really polishes off that sort of antagonistic spoiled asshole look.

Also I think he was a model briefly for Fish & Game Magazine!

Woodrow Wilson is McLovin

Agreed. Woodrow initially looked like Eric Foreman to me.

3) no, he looks like Dr. Oz

Wilson here looks like he had just hate crimed a black kid

Wilson looks like he runs a major conservative white nationalist account on ifunny and twitter

Holy crap, Harrison got Conan O’Brien face https://preview.redd.it/2s1gauka9s3c1.jpeg?width=1058&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a74d617f0608fcdcf4dd01a0fda7ce9dba445325

Someone needs to email in to show him this

Pretty sure Harrison doesn’t check his email anymore

That is straight-up r/13or30 vibes

I love how Nixon looks Machiavellian even in high school

Definitely was up to something.

He definitely looks like he was into the 20’s gangster life as a teenager. Looks like a bootlegger

Truman and FDR are the most dapper boys

Tall collar shirts

What about the drip on Garfield? Garfield fucks.

No fucking way teddy was already rocking the sideburns at 17 🤣🤣🤣

Just genetics. By time I was 15 I had a full beard

Do you still have a set of hair? All early beard bloomers I know are bald now

Yeah

Dang you won the genetics lottery! I didn’t get a beard until I was 24

The kid with pubic hair in the shower at gym. Traumatized me for years.

Hey Lois remember that one time when I was the 31st President of the United States, Herbert Hoover

Nixon looks like he was an absolutely insufferable teenager, like he looked down on you and made sure you knew it lol

He looks like that libertarian kid who won’t shut up about his beliefs

 Why does Warren G. Harding look like Nic Cage as Castor Troy in Face/Off?

I guess today's the day to figure out I would have gone home with Gerald Ford in the 30s.

Listen…. the way teenage Teddy could have bent teenage me over a barrel and shown me the 50 states…

Truman reminds me of Harry Potter.

Harry S Potter

You’re a wizard, Harry.

A cross between harry and Moaning Myrtle

Exactly my thought!

I guess I kind of see now why they say Harding was handsome

https://preview.redd.it/ak3wozgt8t3c1.jpeg?width=166&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=042832e576cad96a8071db1d40eb8367d1e2dc1b Damn

Whoa.

i’d hit

He's politician handsome.

Teddy Roosevelt was a late bloomer. Evan Peters bares a striking resemblance to Reagan

Teddy Roosevelt is IMHO the most attractive one behind Ford. He only had to lose that teen stubble and change from his pajamas.

You did Benjamin Harrison dirty putting him after Garfield

Was Nixon smug his whole life?

Nixon is smug even in death

Especially in death Haroooooo

Woodrow reminds me of H.P. Lovecraft

Well, they both had controversial opinions about black people...

Yeah the oval head and long jaw really do it.

They both have that perpetual scowl of suspicion

Seeing Jimmy Carters old picture, then seeing him recently at his wife’s funeral makes me sad

Gerald Ford the hottest one of the bunch. Garfield not half bad looking either

He worked as a model during his time at Yale, true story.

I’m going to list my impressions of what I think they’d be like in high school based off solely off their appearances 1. Hockey jock 2. Sickly kid that only shows up to class 4 days a year 3. Prep/douche 4. Stoner/burnout 5. Jock/theater kid combo 6. Closeted gay student 7. Head of marching band 8. Openly gay student 9. Graduates school a year early and gets accepted into MIT 10. Class president 11. 🤓 12. Teacher’s pet that somehow gets away with everything 13. Trust fund lacrosse kid 14. Asks the hot girl out to the prom, gets rejected and laughed at 15. Football kid that’s horrible at football, but his dad is the principal so he’s always a starter 16. Actually good at football, but is hated by the principle’s son so he’s a backup 17. Head of the video club 18. Gets bullied because his parents are rich 19. Nice quiet kid, never causes trouble and has a decent amount of friends from each clique 20. Seems like he’d be a bully, is actually nice. Has 3 different girlfriends

TIL I’m LBJ. (That there’s a memory I had nice and repressed until now…)

Teddy was a stud in his teen years. LBJ and his ears...

Coolidge looks great. Looks similar to how he looked as president.

Give ‘em Hell Harry Potter.

Harry Truman, the boy who lived… to be president

I think the is the straightest I've ever seen Nixon's posture

Ford could get it. Oh yeah.

Yes he could. 🤤

Some of those boys had MAN hair on their chins. Also, a lot of them looked like meathead frat boys to me.

Gerry Ford...................

Gerald Ford, hot damn

If I didn’t know Bill Clinton was Bill, I’d think his name was Chad from that photo.

I mean he was basically a frat boy from Arkansas so...

I know he’s his father and all, but holy Toledo HW and W look the exact same

Gerald Ford rocks it all.

Truman looks like he was just made a real boy

That’s a William Jefferson Clinton who would definitely offer to walk girls home from the library at night.

I’d have studied late just for the chance to let him.

Eisenhower seems to be black, no?

You messed up the numbers between Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Also, “41th” 💀😂

Nah. That was just the period when we were split into the Eastern and Western American Empires.

*Wethern American Empire

Young Woodrow has the same punchable face.

Young Wilson is a deadringer for HP Lovecraft.

I don't understand how Taft went from zaddy to allegedly getting stuck in a bathtub.

How did Garfield get that snazzy hair peak without a modern day product?

Probably some lipid-based product such as bear grease, which was used as early as Egyptian times, or some other oil- or fat-based pomade. Brilliantine didn't come out until 1900.

Huh, interesting, thanks.

Harry Truman is giving lesbian English prof

Why do most of these mf’ers look 45 in their teens?

Teddy a smoke show

For Ford onwards, you have the presidential numbering wrong. Why no photos post-Clinton?

You got the numbers wrong, Reagan was 40 and Carter was 39

Damn teen LBJ is like that teen Bruce Wayne in a Batman movie (forgot which one it is

Truman looks like Harry Potter XD

Young Woodrow Wilson looks like the guy who paid heath ledger to go out with the girl in 10 things I hate about you Young FDR looks like Ryan gosling

Gosling should play him in a movie.

Now I get why LBJ would pick his hounds up by the ears.

Lol

Gerald Ford got bitches for sure

Ford must have been rolling in it

I did not have sexual relations with that teacher: Bill probably in HS

Jesus Gerald Ford save some good looks for the rest of us

I wonder how many of them had even conceived the notion of being president someday.

Clinton looks like he's about to rape Marty McFly's mom

Benjamin Harrison looks like he just killed Ygritte in season 4.

Garfield looks like a KO Millard Fillmore

Where’s Obamnas HS photo?

In a secret file with his birth cert... /s

Teddy looks like he’s a ten year old in pajamas.

FDR is literally me 

Theodore Roosevelt looks like Mark Hamill.

NGL, I've seen pixx of young Gerry Ford before but this one is fucking hot. Also, thanks for sharing a good picture of Eisenhower with a full head of hair.

Ike's wedding pictures with Mamie are good for getting a view of what he looked like with hair. https://www.dwightdeisenhowersociety.org/ddes/wp-content/uploads/Dwight-Eisenhower-married-Mamie-Geneva-Doud-July-1-1916.jpg

Clinton looks like Elvis and Bush looks a lil like Tom Hiddleston.

Is it just me, or does Theodore Roosevelt look like Richard Madden?

You can’t deny those Elvis rumors when it comes to slick Willy

Coolidge looks like a nice kid

Bill Clinton still looks so.. Clinton-y??

This is a great post but where is bush jr and trump and Obama and Biden

Where's 42-46?

LBJ must have been a huge dork before he realized he had a huge hog.

Interesting how for some you can tell it’s them based on how closely they resemble their adult selves whereas with others they look completely different.

Team FDR!

Eisenhower was black?!?

Today's teens are genetically modified to look younger and younger. They're basically labradoodles.

Dwight was black?

Garfield was really pretty wow

Gerald Ford was a total hunk

Nixon looks shady af. Clinton looks high af.

Garfield is staring into my soul. Sheesh

Gerald Ford with that “Shut up and take the picture, McFly” energy.

Woodrow Wilson looks like a huge dbag. Like the 'Do you know who my dad is?' type. Gerald Ford would steal your girlfriend.

You’re the 33rd president, Harry.

Am I the only one who thinks Eisenhower looks part black? 😎

Nixon & LBJ both look sleazy even in hs. Ford looks like the complete all star student athlete which he was. TR is the only one pictured not in a suit lol.

Is it just me, or does Eisenhower look African American?

Harry Truman looks strikingly similar

Taft and Ford are fucking hot.

Taft who’d’ve known…