Why is nixon president in futurama

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But back to Nixon, and Futurama. Trump, by contrast, is like this Nixon without even a hint of self-awareness or shame. Do you doubt, even for a moment, that Donald Trump would bother hiding his self-serving answer to such a question? Anything that once would have been a career-ending statement or scandal can now be survived, as polarization has left us so entrenched that there seems to be no way back. Moreover, Nixon backs down on the show from the very threat that the protagonists will release the audio of him threatening to do such a thing, when our actual President was elected DESPITE released audio of him bragging about assaulting women.

Imagine trying to explain to someone, 15 years ago, that releasing that sort of audio would not prevent someone from being elected President. Nixon was president when the USA claimed to send the first men to the Moon in , but as was revealed much later, the moon landing was in reality a hoax, as it was all filmed on Venus.

Nixon resigned from office in , as a direct result of what became known as the Watergate scandal. He died from a stroke in Little is known of what Nixon did between his death and the year , though it is known that he had his resuscitated head put in a jar , and spent some time in the Presidential wing of the Head Museum 1ACV Nixon dislikes being a head, though—he was extremely fond of his old body, and describes it as "flabby, pasty-skinned, riddled with phlebitis—a good Republican body".

Later that year, however, he ran a successful dark horse campaign, and was elected President of Earth , sweeping the robot vote with his charismatic new robotic body 2ACV This body also was the reason why he could become president for a third time after twice in the s : while no body can be president more than twice, Nixon had a brand new body.

Nixon's vice president was the Headless body of Agnew. According to a deleted scene, the bill automatically registered a vote for Nixon causing him to win the elections. In , he won the elections. In , vice president Headless body of Agnew was killed by the Feministas in an accident. It is not known who took the position of vice president since, if anyone.

However, it could have been Dick Cheney's head. Nixon regained office afterwards, as he was seen with Zapp Brannigan trying to come up with a solution with the common cold crisis 6ACV