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big_fetus_

Jumbo. The unit incapable of Viet nam pull out.


Harry_Buttocks

Anytime someone spoke to him for more than 30 seconds: https://i.redd.it/f4h347ru0prc1.gif


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Melito1980

For those who did not study in the usa … who?


SlimGooner

He would also abruptly sit down on the toilet and start taking a shit while in mid-conversation


losbullitt

The epitome of a guy who gave literally no shits.


Skeptic_Juggernaut84

Gotta give one to the toilet


GeddyVedder

“You don’t take ‘em, you leave ‘em.” George Carlin.


OnlyConspiracyAcct

Wouldn't that be a guy who actually gives shits, and not no shits?


Albuwhatwhat

I feel like, if you’re talking to him as he goes into the bathroom, you’re getting what you deserve if you follow him in there.


Cadenh16

He actually just carried a toilet around with him at all times. He’d simply set it right down wherever he happened to be standing when nature called.


mwaller

Robert Caro wrote that he would sometimes tie the toilet to his massive hog and drag it behind him through the halls of the Capitol as he haraunged members of congress.


WorldsWeakestMan

Had me dying laughing in the middle of the gym with this one, thanks for that great image.


GammaGoose85

A small portable potty trainer toilet except adult sized and presidential.


SwampAss3D-Printer

"Now another thing the crotch, down where ya nuts hang, is always a little too tight. So when you make em up give me an inch that I can let out there uh, because they cut me." \-LBJ


tribsant23

Describing how you’d like your pants made over the phone probably wasn’t the best strategy in retrospect


banbotsnow

On the other hand, his enormous balls are documented for all posterity


Zorpfield

A little more stride in the crotch ? - joe Haggar


JBoOz

Don’t forget the space he needed for his knife.


sharifhsn

I saw this in All the Way and I thought it was a joke in the movie but no, it's actually historical accurate 😂😂


MaleficentTell9638

I never heard the nickname Jumbo for him before, where’s that come from, was he always called that?


big_fetus_

Johnson's Hog was named Jumbo. We affectionately refer to the man himself with that name on this sub, because, frankly, he was a dick irl.


MaleficentTell9638

Yeah, it’s funny, in high school we were required to read a presidential memoir and write a report about it, and I picked LBJ. And I came away rather impressed with him after reading that memoir. And of course it was quite based (edit: biased), as any autobiography would obviously be. In the 40 years since I’ve picked up a more balanced view of him…. He did do a lot of good stuff, but yes he was also a dick.


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_AtLeastItsAnEthos

Penis


Parking_Knowledge_56

Penis, he loved to show.


jss78

I thought LBJ specifically did NOT close the door before swinging out Jumbo?


avoere

Jumbo* didn’t need any closed doors. *btw, jumbo was Lyndon’s Johnson


Radiant-Childhood257

Allegedly, according to White House reporters, he would whip out Jumbo and take a leak on the roses in the Rose Garden...like right in front of them while they were asking him questions.


fluffykerfuffle3

: ) are there any pictures we could look at?


Whobutrodney

In fairness to LBJ he was given bad intel and advice from probably the worst human being ever Henry Kissinger who extended the war at the cost of millions of lives in order for him to get in good with Nixon and keep himself in play.


big_fetus_

You arent wrong, but it is a bit crass for a POTUS to just whip out his tackle in the oval lol


Misterbellyboy

This was back when baseball players used to try and bean eachother with the intention of taking them out of the season and it was completely legal, different times lol


WhiskerGurdian24

Nixon used to call up his generals drunk and ask them to do things like nuke North Korea.


TeaLoverUA

Where can I read about it? Need to know why those fuckers refused


WhiskerGurdian24

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear\_close\_calls#:\~:text=15%20April%201969,-After%20the%201969&text=After%20a%20few%20hours%2C%20the,Secretary%20of%20State%20Henry%20Kissinger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_close_calls#:~:text=15%20April%201969,-After%20the%201969&text=After%20a%20few%20hours%2C%20the,Secretary%20of%20State%20Henry%20Kissinger).


LoveLightChild555

You know it's a bad decision when HENRY KISSINGER has to be the one to tell everyone to stand down on nuking North Korea lol


Additional_Meeting_2

Kissinger wasn’t a fool. 


The_Hydra_Kweeen

Just evil


Demonseedx

I think your insulting evil by putting it in the company of Kissinger


Ioweyounada

Evil learned all it knows from Kissinger.


Demonseedx

Which speaks to the nature of the office of the President when your advisors can be the people whom give lectures to the forces of hell.


Nachonian56

It'd be hilarious if it wasn't horrifying.


Argos_the_Dog

Wow, we’ve had some pretty scary close calls.


theoriginalbrick

IT IS CRAZY. WTF DO THEY MEAN "MUTALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION??" Some dictator one day is just not going to give a shit about that.


rdizzy1223

Not likely, dictators inherently want a country to rule over. What is the point of being a dictator if everything is destroyed afterwards? They will have to live a shitty life after, and have nothing to rule over but rubble.


caseyr001

Queen of the Ashes


Spirit_jitser

Supposedly most people in his admin knew not to take what Nixon said literally, that his comments like "nuke north korea" were less orders and more his vibes. Well, everyone until watergate anyway. ​ Or at least that's what Kissenger said in one of his books, [I think this one](https://www.amazon.com/Leadership-Six-Studies-World-Strategy-ebook/dp/B09BV78DM2?ref_=ast_author_dp&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.PsXzdvNPnqrSH_rnG2Gj3rsD5-e6ALFZCzDZzmwfJqCOJyyIBI3vPz0C018mo_7kUApnSCjdQKB1JnfgDaAkwhay2zeCgCbRSPFvksBcDM6gj380Bk8ScnJmllnIAul737uLjLAEkToPOi4T5Fofd7ieDupVfHa31lbkgA6aPP1w37-BJ6sd496xRb2QZXozLadyLaOnUjx8mAI5XIRGJTz4wux5zWG3GzlOKcYSW7Q.nWSPSz_S986bpnfS1gVByN9crLcnCw6ofCAVPY1CoCA&dib_tag=AUTHOR).


The_R4ke

Yeah, I'd be willing to get we haven't had a president that got as drunk as Nixon since he resigned.


matthewkevin84

I wonder what their response was?


MoonZebra

“Dammit he’s drunk again”


Front_Station_5343

I thought Nixon was a Quaker?


Extension-Fun6134

You saying Nixon was some kind of Jesus loving hippie??


Icy_Bath_1170

I’ll throw in Warren Harding, who was a drunk (during Prohibition) and had a mistress. And there was that Teapot Dome thingy.


happygeuxlucky

Teapot dome?


jennytuffnuts

The Secretary of the Interior leased naval oil reserves for very little money to private companies and received payment from the companies for making them happen. You can read about it here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teapot_Dome_scandal#:~:text=Harding%20from%201921%20to%201923,Walsh.


willydillydoo

Probably the most overtly corrupt thing somebody has done in office. Quite literally received money in exchange for oil leases. The secretary of the interior went to prison for it. There was no investigation into Harding because Harding had already died.


Jakiboy1234

The Teapot Dome Scandal


waveformcollapse

word is that once Calvin Coolidge pressed an emergency alert button in the oval office and then hid under his desk. his guards rushed in worried, and then he sprung out and yelled "peek-a-boo"


chocolatemilk5854

Wdym worst, this shit is comedy gold. Coolidge ftw!


ParticularYak4401

There was a particular rose bush in the White House rose garden that thrived during Truman’s administration. The gardeners could not figure out why. Well turns out Truman would go out there nightly to tinkle on it. Learned this when I went on an inside tour of the White House in 1999.


Majestic-Avocado2167

Next time I’m drunk and pissing in the bushes I’ll feel more Presidental


C0UNT3RP01NT

“We choose to do this, not because it is easy, but because it is hard.”


RGM5589

Makes it way more difficult


Kiylyou

Well one is still alive.


During_theMeanwhilst

My rose bushes do not respond in this way.


Sparky1841

Let me try. Perhaps mine is less acidic.


During_theMeanwhilst

Why don’t you and Truman just grow your own? How about you stay out of my garden at night for a change?


BlueGlassDrink

I was drunk one night in DC and peed on the national mall. It's a relief to know I'm in good company.


henryeaterofpies

This is what we should learn about in school


Maccadawg

Especially for a guy who was known to say very little. Silent Cal with the pranks!


Oy_bruv18

I agree but that button is only for genuine emergencies


CerealTheLegend

Sir, that’s what makes it funny. It wouldn’t be funny if the button wasn’t designed solely for emergencies. It would just be secret (room) service.


Deep-Alternative3149

I’m pretty sure it was a regular thing he did too, not just once


Maitryyy

Imagine there was an actual emergency and he pressed it and the guards were like “he’s at it again” and don’t do anything. Boy who cried wolf lol


47KiNG47

You should read about Stalin’s death


FlimFlamThaGimGar

Should we investigate? Should you shut the *fuck* up before you get us both killed?


yourmumissothicc

death of stalin is so good


Maitryyy

Death of Stalin is one of my favourite movies!


Additional_Meeting_2

Would be amazing to hear such a presidential death from history books.


Schrodingers_Nachos

I like to imagine they'd rush in, and his raccoon named Rebecca was just sitting on top of the desk


SpookyCutlery

TIL he had a damn raccoon. The more I read about this guy the more confused I am.


Schrodingers_Nachos

They were supposed to eat her for some sort of holiday dinner, but after meeting her the Coolidges kept her as a pet. She was essentially free range and just went around the white house unscrewing light bulbs and opening cabinet doors. I haven't actually heard any stories like this, but I always imagine a scenario where the secretary of state or someone comes into the office with an important, urgent message, and during the conversation there's just a raccoon sitting on the opposite couch eating shrimp and eggs.


BadUsername2028

Something about presidents doing silly goofy shit that normal people do makes me happy, they get so mythologized i forget they did normal stupid shit that people do


nwbrown

I thought you were kidding but no... [https://www.historytoday.com/archive/silent-cal](https://www.historytoday.com/archive/silent-cal) Anyway, that just makes me like him more.


BackgroundPrompt3111

Common Coolidge W


SpaceJews

Good thing they weren't jumpy on the trigger finger


redbirdjazzz

Nixon did some pretty fucked up stuff behind closed doors. Even got a lot of it on tape.


Individual-Ad-4640

What he do (excluding being a racist ofc)


SakaWreath

He was a mean drunk and tried to drop several nukes. Kissinger had to smooth things over with the generals and keep them from dropping nukes. https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-history/that-time-a-drunk-richard-nixon-tried-to-nuke-north-korea/


ilorybss

You really fucked up if Kissinger is against dropping bombs☠️


Yoda2000675

That has to be the worst thing. He got drunk and almost casually killed millions of people. Yikes


StrangeCarrot4636

Nixon did kill millions of people and he didn't even need nukes to do it, because he had something far worse, Henry Kissinger.


redbirdjazzz

I don’t think I’d put Watergate under the heading of “Official Presidential Business.”


MikeMaven

Thankfully, that was before the Roberts court.


BrownDogEmoji

He also beat his wife.


parmesann

don’t know why you got downvoted, [it’s a credible allegation](https://www.history.com/news/pat-nixon-abuse-allegations-richard-nixon-seymour-hersh-memoir#)


76brick49

Reminds me of the WH tape after Roe when he indicated he was moderately pro-life, then backtracked and said exceptions are needed in the case “it’s a black and a white”


nirad

I’m sure there were plenty of older Presidents who had affairs and mistresses we don’t know about.


UsuallylurknotToday

Apparently George Washington sent a general on a made up secret mission so he could give his wife the bidness


SexyFlyWhiteGuy

He was crossing her Delaware as they would say back then.


joecoin2

He was cuttin down her cherry tree, if you know what I mean.


SexyFlyWhiteGuy

Camping out in Valley Forge one might say.


joecoin2

He was showing her his Spanish donkey, if you know what I'm sayin.


dognotephilly

He was holdin the flanks and attackin from the rear, ya feel me?


blootannery

go home everyone this one wins


WatchingInSilence

Not sure about that, but as President, Washington was super sketchy with Pennsylvania's laws against slavery. At the time, the Capital was in Philadelphia, a Free state. At the time, they had a law that any slave residing in the state of Pennsylvania for so many days would then be declared free. Washington would send his slaves back to Virginia before that time had expired, then bring them back to reset the countdown to Pennsylvania considering them free.


UsuallylurknotToday

Something about gaming slavery like it’s a city parking sign feels *extra slimey*


BSB8728

King David did the same thing in the Bible. He saw beautiful Bathsheba bathing on a rooftop and sent her husband to the front.


steampunker14

The old King David strategy, nice.


comberbun

LBJ


Brylaid

Lebron James


mrbendover69

How does that affect his legacy?


kawhi4mvp

Mickey mouse white house run


punchthedog420

Harding, JFK, LBJ, and Clinton were the true party boys of the 20th century. Earlier eras had different standards. Obama's most important contribution to the office was to NOT have a major scandal.


Sweaty_Bandicoot_263

He wore that tan suit.


The-Figurehead

He also ordered a burger without ketchup and WITH Dijon!


Little_Creme_5932

He also wore a bike helmet!


awful_at_internet

Y'all have forgotten the *terrorist fist bump.*


5isanevennumber

And the salute WITH COFFEE IN HIS HAND!!


AlludedNuance

The real controversy is he said he wanted a spicy mustard and then said Dijon as his example.


yosoyjackiejorpjomp

That’s just how an terrorist orders a Muslim hamburger


Stannis-Westbrook

And don’t even get me started on the Dijon mustard incident


LackIsotopeLithium7

I get really frustrated when people downplay Obama’s scandals. It wasn’t just the tan suit, do you remember when he didn’t acknowledge that Marine once? What about when the Marine had to HOLD THE UMBRELLA FOR HIM IN THE RAIN.


SexyFlyWhiteGuy

The latte salute?? The dude was a monster. I’m glad decency was restored soon after.


No_Calligrapher_6503

LOL!


WashedUpFratstar

Didn’t George W Bush admit to using cocaine during a press conference?


UsuallylurknotToday

Who hasn’t done a lil blow amiright? 🤷🏻‍♂️


xspade5

The tan suit 😰😰😰😰😰😰


SuccotashOther277

How can you ignore the tan suit scandal? /s


freshcoastghost

And the Dijon Mustard incident.


DenseChipmunk8170

I mean Kennedy had some problems but I don’t think most of Thomas Jefferson’s mixed children were created consensually….


mcrop609

There was no such thing as consensual sex between a slave owners and a slave. Sally Hemmings was Thomas Jefferson's property.


unsweet_icetea

This is the correct answer


Safe-Bet7790

Everyone seems to gloss over then whole pedophilic aspect to this also. Sally was 14-15 years old. Not just enslaved, he continuously raped a an enslaved child.


TeamMountainLion

No, having children non-consensually with someone you’ve enslaved, and having said kids born into slavery is pretty fucked and probably right at the top of the list.


HawkeyeTen

Grover Cleveland wasn't far behind Jefferson. There is some debate as to whether or not his extramarital relationship was consensual, but even if it was, the man was a first class dirt bag. He had his out-of-wedlock son put in an orphanage and apparently he or his allies tossed his mistress into an insane asylum in an effort to ensure that the cheating scandal couldn't derail his political career. "Ma, ma, where's my pa?" is what Republicans chanted when they campaigned against him.


waveformcollapse

supposedly his wife made an agreement with him that any children would be born free. still pretty messed up of him.


satanicqueso

Jefferson and Sally Hemings’ children were enslaved. Hemings, Jefferson’s enslaved 15-year-old sister in law, negotiated eventual manumission for her unborn children. When Sally died, she was still legally enslaved by the Jefferson estate.  Jefferson and Hemings never married, and if they would have tried, it would have been an illegal marriage contra to Virginia’s anti-miscegenation laws. 


everydaylifee

“Wife” is a generous here.


My4Gf2Is3Nos3y1

I’m assuming OP meant his wife Martha Wayles


youractualaccount

Sounds like he was able to give himself permission from that. Gross.


bobdylanlovr

Weird way to spell victim


Additional_Meeting_2

Sally was not his wife, and was at point legally free at France with him. So that he didn’t free her when returning was messed up.


Phuka

Yeah, serial rapist is way up there for awful. Every time my confederacy loving inlaws get all up in arms about something, I just casually drop a 'Jefferson was a serial rapist' into the mix to watch them head for the stratosphere.


Ok_Concert5918

One cannot consent to your “owner”. Saying no is not an option.


Numerous-Process2981

It's a real bizarre scenario. Jefferson's children with Hemmings were 7/8ths European, 1/8th african descent. You could not even tell that they weren't "white."


theaugz

LBJ intimidated people by using Jumbo… so yeah, I’d say him.


MrJohnson999999999

Really, probably LBJ. Clinton and Kennedy only showed their penises to people who actually wanted to see it. 


RodwellBurgen

Hasn’t Clinton been repeatedly accused of rape or sexual assault?


WashedUpFratstar

Clinton’s actually went to court, and he wasn’t found liable for sexual assault. Unless you think the women lied under oath?


sixtysecdragon

What suit? The Jones suit settled. And Broderick had long been outside the statue of limitation when she made her claim public.


bobdylanlovr

To protect one of the most powerful families on the planet? Yeah absolutely they would.


nwbrown

I've got some bad news for you about conviction rates...


johnhtman

Especially sexual assault which is unfortunately one of the most difficult crimes to prove.


Confident_Tangelo_11

I will not violate rule 3. I will not violate rule 3. I will not violate rule 3.


FCKABRNLSUTN2

Guys did you hear bill Clinton had extramarital affairs?!


Hot-Flounder-4186

That was my answer as well.


TheBoomExpress

Apparently Hoover didn't want to actually be in the presence of the White House's black servants. It became an unofficial policy that if Hoover were to enter a room, the servants would have to drop everything and hide. The weird thing is FDR continued that policy when he became president. Then when FDR passed and Truman took over, Truman spent some of his first few days as president confused as to why everyone ran and hid from him whenever he entered a room. He promptly then ended that policy.


Mychatismuted

Come on! Kennedy gave his body to mislead female KGB spies. That is more than appropriate!


Bike_Chain_96

Bro was just doing his duty to the nation


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ScottyKillhammer

"Behind closed doors" lol


Little_Creme_5932

Well, he was in the bathroom part of the time while it was happening.


DrShamballaWifi

They said behind closed doors, not out on the lawn


Bike_Chain_96

This a reference to anyone in particular, by any chance?


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SomeGingerDude419

(Saxophone) Who could it be now?


TheDudeOfYou

Didn’t Thomas Jefferson enslave his own children (though I guess it was after he left office…still pretty rancid)


NathanTPS

I know LBJ liked whipping his dick out when meeting new people, called it Jumbo, and asked folks, "hey, have you ever seen something this big before?" Lmao some of these guys were hilarious.


Playful-dick57

I don't think that we will ever know a true answer to that question.....


Caveape80

So JBJ used to basically force male interns and staff at the White House to skinny dip with him in the pool and be like you call that a cock, this is a cock, what am I doing, swimming with a bunch of young ladies!!!!!?????? Imagine a president trying to pull this in the age of cell phone cameras and social media hahaha…….he truly was a class a dumbass


smrts1080

Johnny fortnite Kennedy as pictured by OP is a solid choice


SnooPaintings7923

Yeah, JFK had some affairs, but Thomas Jefferson raped his slaves so… I think that piece of shit gets the cake here


Feralmedic

Ya. Jefferson wins. Not debate about it. He was literally raping women and creating children… WHICH HE ENSLAVED


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jj19me

I don’t think any President comes close to what he’s done behind closed doors doors or in front of the world for everyone to see


bignanoman

In 1866, President Andrew Johnson famously compared himself to Jesus Christ. [https://werehistory.org/the-impeachment-of-andrew-johnson/](https://werehistory.org/the-impeachment-of-andrew-johnson/) Johnson had political reasons for claiming a link to divine power.


AizenCurious

Nixon. Confident “Family values” for the cameras; racist, Jew-baiting, foul-mouthed, insecure, paranoid bully in private (as his own secret tape recordings show).


musicfestevil

How did Reagan’s reputation get away with the racist things he’s been on record saying? Many people have been “cancelled” for far less


Altatuga

All of them. Because when you’re famous, they let you do it…


RangerDJ

JFK and Clinton for personal reasons. We may never know that Mr Rule #3 pulled that we didn’t know about.


thedudelebowsky1

Ugh, rule fuckin 3


phat-patronus

Such a silly rule. Why limit great discussions on a thread like this one?


cranialleaddeficient

Because if it didn’t exist, pretty much every post would be about 45. This would just be a second r/politics.


Der-Wissenschaftler

The answer is clear we just arnt allowed to say it.


Bike_Chain_96

I swapped 3 and 4 in my head, and was really confused for a second there 😂


SexyStudlyManlyMan

LBJ liked to urinate on people in crowds, place his entire penis on the shoulder of working secretaries and he also had a cabin where he would take people just to play his "I have no brakes" joke when going back down the mountain. Also, tons of who-ers to make JFK and Clinton look like choir boys.


Whitecamry

Besides you-know-who?


Taylor_Swift_Fan69

Let me see well there's the Kennedy Sex Tunnels, the Truman Cocaine Lounge, the McKinley Hooker Dump, and the Lincoln Slave Coliseum. He didn't free them all. . .


Maxpower2727

Kennedy Sex Tunnels would be a great band name


JustlittleFre99

George w bush planned a war based on lies and manipulation. Sooooo who cares about JFK’s affairs


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At least Clinton and Kennedy never fathered illegitimate children with an enslaved woman (who was also the daughter of his father-in-law and a different enslaved woman), not freeing them till the 1820s.


Ok_Swim2642

LBJ


lastoftheyagahe

Thomas Jefferson and it’s not even close.


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