Move over Donald Trump: 21 screen Presidents we’d totally vote for

Harrison Ford, Kavin Spacey, Robin Williams and Daniel Day Lewis played our favourite onscreen Presidents.

Updated on: Nov 8, 2016 1:12 PM IST

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Harrison Ford, Kavin Spacey, Robin Williams and Daniel Day Lewis played our favourite onscreen Presidents.

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Aaron Eckhart plays President Asher in Olympus Has Fallen and its sequel London Has Fallen.

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Bill Pullman’s President Thomas Whitmore giving perhaps the most famous presidential speech in movies in Independence Day.

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Anthony Hopkins played Richard Nixon in Oliver Stone’s biopic.

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Josh Brolin played George W Bush in Oliver Stone’s second presidential biopic on American presidents (JFK wasn’t a biopic). The poster explains it all.

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Harrison Ford’s butt-kicking President James Marshall in Air Force One took matters into his own hands.

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Years before Barack Obama, Morgan Freeman played a black US President in Deep Impact. He had some really depressing news for the world.

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Jamie Foxx and his Jordans played the action hero President William Sawyer in White House Down.

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Michael Douglas’ President Andrew Shepard is one of the most human Presidents to ever be portrayed on screen

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Monsters Vs Aliens had the brilliant idea to cast late night talk show host Stephen Colbert as a terrified and cowardly President Hathaway.

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The late, great Alan Rickman played Ronald Reagan in the overstuffed-with-presidents movie The Butler.

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Bill Murray as President Franklin D Roosevelt in the biopic Hyde Park on Hudson.

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Who would’ve thought that one of Robin Williams’ most iconic roles would be playing President Theodore Roosevelt in the Night at the Museum movies?

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Benjamin Walker played President Abraham Lincoln unlike anyone else. For one, his version was a vigilante vampire hunter in his spare time.

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Daniel Day Lewis won an Oscar for his towering performance as America’s most loved President Abraham Lincoln in Steven Spielberg’s biopic.

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While we may have to wait a year to get the first female American President, Julia Louis-Dreyfus plays the former Veep and current POTUS Selina Meyer very successfully on TV.

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Martin Sheen played without a doubt the most famous President on TV ever. His President Josiah Bartlet was iconic on screen, and maybe even inspired his son to put his own spin on it in...

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Machete Kills introduced us to Carlos Estevez as the characteristically loony and trigger-happy President Rathcock.

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Ladies and gentlemen, here’s Peter Seller as President Merkin Muffley in Stanley Kubrick’s classic satire Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

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When Martians attack the Earth, the only man who should be allowed to break the news to us is Jack Nicholson’s President James Dale.

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The only reason Samuel L Jackson took on this role in the oddball Finnish action comedy is because he got to play President. The movie’s name is Big Game, by the way.

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And last but certainly not the least is the menacing Kevin Spacey as the now-legendary President Francis J Underwood from the popular TV series House of Cards.