Fictionalized portrayals of George W. Bush
Most fictional depictions of the President in popular media tend to emphasize his drawl and tendency to use incorrect grammar and malapropisms in speeches, as well as his sometimes awkward hand and facial gestures.
In 2004, Showtime broadcast a made-for-television movie titled DC 9/11: Time of Crisis re-enacting the September 11, 2001 attacks from the point of view of President Bush.
[citation needed] He is shown lying in bed (with his face obscured by his feet from the camera's point of view) saying to one of the flight attendants (with a Bush-like voice, a heavy southern accent and Bush-style laughter), "Hey, could you wrangle me up some Ding Dongs?"
In the 2008 Norwegian comedy sequel Lange Flate Ballær 2, after the main characters (Petter, Øyvind, Edgar, Karsten, Kai and Freddy) have prevented an American nuclear submarine from exploding and thus save the world, Bush (played by Steve Bridges) pays them a visit at their garage in Fredrikstad, Norway.
Sam Rockwell plays George W. Bush in the 2018 film Vice, for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
[2] Bush appliers as the president of the United States, who wants Karmouti (Ahmad Adam) to falsely admit of doing terrorist attacks and dealing with weapons of mass destruction for Russia.
2DTV (a UK satire cartoon) regularly portrayed George W. Bush as a childish simpleton who would often make hazardous decisions while in the Oval Office.
In the episode "Back to the Pilot", Brian Griffin tells his past self about the 9/11 terrorist attacks in an effort to become memorialized as a national hero, though this backfires: leading to a Civil War in which Bush takes control of the south.
In a press conference announcing the conflict, Bush asks for somebody to procure a "clown suitcase" for him, claiming that he is interested in knowing of its contents.
Seth MacFarlane answered, "It was right after the [2000] election, and me and co-creator Matt Weitzman was so frustrated with the Bush administration that we would just spend days bitching and complaining, and we figured we should channel this into something creative and hopefully profitable".
George W. Bush was portrayed on the Star Wars special of the stop-motion animation show Robot Chicken aired on Adult Swim.
He was at one point set to appear in "About Last Night..." and was to take the blame for the Hope Diamond heist (performed by Barack Obama and John McCain in the episode) in a spoof of Ocean's Eleven.
The show's creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, cut the scene because they considered Bush a "dead man walking".
Bush made an appearance in an episode of the 2001–2003 Cartoon Network animated series Time Squad, trying to make the biggest ball of twine in the world to "bring America together".
In the Canadian animated series Sons of Butcher, in the episode "Payin' the Bills", Bush is seen playing video games with two other politicians in his office.
In Kopspijkers, a Dutch public television talk show, Thomas van Luyn as President Bush was set before a fictional press and sang an edited version of the song "Always on My Mind".
On the BBC British comedy impression show Dead Ringers, Bush was a recurring target for satire, being portrayed by Jon Culshaw.
The parodies of Bush put emphasis and exaggeration on the concept of Bushisms, general ignorance, and lampooned malapropisms, such as "My fellow Abbytitmuses, this is your Sterident speaking..." and "I want Osama Bin Laden captured alive or dead or both!".
Since Parnell's impression was not as popular as Ferrell's, cast member Darrell Hammond was selected to replace him as Bush in late 2003.
Despite being about the fictional exploits of the president, it instead mostly satirized the 1970s, 1980s, and workplace sitcoms; indeed, it was originally pitched as being about Al Gore, implying that jokes about George Bush were never really meant to be the show's main feature.
On the December 18 edition of WWE Raw, a George W. Bush impersonator entered the ring in aid of Cryme Tyme, an African American tag team.
The impersonation sketch they performed referenced multiple African American celebrities, including Kanye West as well as Bush Administration officials Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice.
In the political comic Doonesbury, President George W. Bush was symbolized by a Stetson hat atop a giant asterisk.
[citation needed] Later, President Bush's symbol was changed to a Roman military helmet (again, atop an asterisk) representing imperialism.
Towards the end of his first term, the helmet became battered, with the gilt work starting to come off and with clumps of bristles missing from the top, but on September 2, 2006, he fantasized about himself wearing a crown.
[citation needed] Starting on November 2, 2010, Roland Hedley began interviewing President Bush for Fox News.
[8] Bell first drew Bush as a chimpanzee in a cartoon on his inauguration, as a reference to the 1951 film Bedtime for Bonzo starring Ronald Reagan.
Bush appears in a cameo during the first volume of Marvel's The Ultimates, a satirical take on the Avengers which reimagines its heroes in a post-9/11 context.
[citation needed] While no commentary was made on his policies, the President did seem flustered as he spoke to the then-recently awoken Captain America.
He also says that non-Christians have no souls, believes that same-sex marriage is a threat to America, and his motto is, "Fuck the poor" (a parody of his alleged hostility to working-class citizens).
