Have you ever seen a US president in person?

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Vegy
10/02/2025
11:22 PM
#1
hmm? ;;;o
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DB_Insider
10/02/2025
11:31 PM
#2
Vegy should be president so all people can hate on him
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viewmaster_pi
10/02/2025
11:32 PM
#3
yeah actually, bill clinton
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boxoto
10/02/2025
11:34 PM
#4
no.

my family met with Obama, but I decided not to go since it would mean flying out and I feel uncomfortable in those kinds of events.

my mom also met with Trump for her job during his first term, and jokingly offered for us to come, but we were like, nah.
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Kurt_Russel
10/02/2025
11:36 PM
#5
Obama, from far away as he was leaving air force one while my family was departing from the same airport.
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HeeathLivesOn
10/02/2025
11:41 PM
#6
Obama, at a rally
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Tyranthraxus
10/02/2025
11:56 PM
#7
No. I actively avoid them if I know they're going to be around. The only way this can happen is if I meet them before they become president.
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NO2_Fiend
10/02/2025
11:58 PM
#8
Yes, George H Bush at a rally in Georgia when I was maybe 4.
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Sariana21
10/03/2025
12:14 AM
#9
My family went to a space shuttle landing when I was young, and President Reagan was there, but I didn't see him because I was young (and short) and there were too many people in the way.

My husband met Chelsea Clinton when she was a student at Stanford.

He's actually hobnobbed with some pretty significant people, but not the president (afaik - but there are things he can't tell me).
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PurestProdigy
10/03/2025
12:23 AM
#10
I went to Obama's inauguration if that counts.
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hivebent4life
10/03/2025
12:38 AM
#12
No, but my father met Trump back in the 80s before he was involved in politics
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PerseusRad
10/03/2025
12:40 AM
#13
I think I was within a few yards or so of Obama once, but I didnt actually see him.
MagnusDJL
10/03/2025
12:50 AM
#14
Biden visited the University I attended while he was still Obama's VP
furb
10/03/2025
12:53 AM
#15
George W Bush. About 20 feet away. I went to a campaign rally in 2004. I thought it would be cool to see a president in real life and they gave some tickets to our political science department. I asked for one and got one.
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qwerti
10/03/2025
01:32 AM
#16
no I havent

but when Barrack was in office he went to a city nearby (hub)

was asked to go but didnt want to. was glad to be asked tbh but
boxoto posted...
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but I decided not to go since it would mean flying out and I feel uncomfortable in those kinds of events.
Butterfiles
10/03/2025
01:51 AM
#17
I saw Dubya getting on Air Force One when I visited the White House
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Thermador446
10/03/2025
01:52 AM
#18
I saw Bill Clinton campaign for Obama.
I met Al Gore at a campaign event when I was a kid.
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BuzzKilljoy
10/03/2025
02:29 AM
#19
Not while they were the sitting president obviously, but in the 2023 basketball season I went to see an NIT game at SMU and George W. was sitting directly across from us, center court. All he had for visible security was a couple of sheriff's deputies. Kinda blew my mind
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Aristoph
10/03/2025
02:35 AM
#20
Yeah. Not like directly met them or anything. But there was one at a sports game I went to when I was real young. Pretty sure it was the World Series game, but might've been one of the NFL games my dad took me to. I was a kid so the memory is kinda blurry. Don't even remember which President it was.
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Awakened_Link
10/03/2025
03:00 AM
#21
Not me, but my husband shook hands with Clinton when he visited our state while he was in office.
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GGuirao13
10/03/2025
04:27 AM
#22
No.
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HighSeraph
10/03/2025
04:37 AM
#23
I saw Dubya at the downs the year before he would become president, does that count?
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tankboy
10/03/2025
04:55 AM
#24
My MiL saw Biden at church a few times. My wife was in the grade below Chelsea Clinton in high school, but wasn't friends with her. We know a few Gore and Kennedy (Shriver) descendants, but I've never met the more famous ones.
Two months ago, I spotted Tipper Gore at an OK Go concert.
MLBloomy
10/03/2025
05:43 AM
#25
Saw Obama throw out the first pitch at the Washington Nationals home opener in 2010.
KainWind
10/03/2025
05:45 AM
#26
I saw future president Hillary Clinton once
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boomgetchopped3
10/03/2025
06:12 AM
#27
I was too young to remember but I was at Bush Srs inauguration with my family. My dad had to work it.
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Garlands_Soul
10/03/2025
06:19 AM
#28
Yeah Biden gave a speech at my college before he was president
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Cory898
10/03/2025
06:32 AM
#29
Biggest politician Ive seen in person was Bernie which as a Vermonter isnt that hard. He spoke briefly to my college intro to politics class after being there to lecture to the previous class. And he was the speaker at my brothers high school graduation.
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Giacomo_Hawkins
10/03/2025
06:35 AM
#30
No. I've been stopped by the presidential motorcade several times, but this isn't like an open vehicle JFK-style motorcade for some reason.
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The_Popo
10/03/2025
06:56 AM
#31
George HW Bush and Barbara Bush spoke at my high school. Im still not sure why - it had to do with a magazine promoting some project. He was out of office by then (late 90s), but was still neat.
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Aysander
10/03/2025
07:24 AM
#32
Obama was present at my high school to give a speech on one of the rare days I actually attended the assembly instead of staying in class and doing my homework.

Hearing one of his speeches in person is way more powerful than hearing it online or reading it after the fact, imo. There was an aura to his words, if that makes any sense.
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Zikten
10/03/2025
08:48 AM
#33
No but I've seen a governor
Bass
10/03/2025
09:19 AM
#34
No, closest I've been to one was George W Bush, though. He came to our neck of the woods and I saw his car go past.

It's kind of funny, my part of PA is apparently popular for presidents/future presidents to come visit. Biden came as VP to dedicate a new bridge for us not far from my home, Clinton came and they renamed the road for him, Trump also came and had a rally in the next town over.
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Cory898
10/03/2025
07:11 PM
#35
Bass posted...
No, closest I've been to one was George W Bush, though. He came to our neck of the woods and I saw his car go past.

It's kind of funny, my part of PA is apparently popular for presidents/future presidents to come visit. Biden came as VP to dedicate a new bridge for us not far from my home, Clinton came and they renamed the road for him, Trump also came and had a rally in the next town over.
I remember H. W. Bush coming to my area when I was in grade school but the closest I came was seeing him on the local news waving at schoolkids from a vehicle.
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Pow_Pow_Punishment
10/03/2025
07:19 PM
#36
Closest I've come to is seeing Bernie Sanders at a campaign event in 2020.
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wackyteen
10/03/2025
07:49 PM
#37
Yes, I attended the most recent Commander-In-Chief ball where one Donald John Trump Senior was present.

Can confirm, the President does exist.
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TheSuperSilver
10/03/2025
07:51 PM
#38
I have a signed 3rd grade class picture (addressed to me by name) taken with then Senator Biden.
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