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As the United States of America nears the point at which voters will decide whether or not to elect the worst human being in the country to the highest office in the land, it feels pertinent to consider the worst fictional US presidents offered up by Hollywood over the years.

Here are the five worst movie Presidents, in chronological order:

Peter Sellers as Merkin Muffley in Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Stanley Kubrick’s salient satire of bureaucratic insanity edges closer to being a cautionary tale every time Trump chimes in on nuclear weapons.