Joe Biden is not the 46th President of the United States of America.

grover cleveland was elected twice, but his second term was after a different president

To the OP: You listed Cleveland only once, he served one term after Benjamin Harrison in addition to one term before Benjamin Harrison. He is commonly counted as the 22nd and 24th president. That may or not make sense, but that is how the historians count presidents.

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Well, if you listen to the crazy pillow guy, Trump is still the President so Biden doesn’t even count.
Better factoid….did you know that originally, the President and VP candidates ran separately
and the presidential candidate who received the most electoral votes won the presidency; the runner-up became the vice president. In 1796, this meant that the president and the vice president (Adams and Jefferson) were from different parties and had quite different political views to say the least. The adoption of 12th Amendment presumably solved this problem by allowing each party to nominate their “team” for president and vice president.”
Sadly, as the Trumpkopf discovered, the constitution does NOT guarantee that the VP must be a “team player” with respect to certifying their “reelection”

The only team-player VP in recent years was Dick Cheney. Pence tried, but had a difficult boss. All others for the last 40 years were used to win elections and then sent to pasture.

AAQ: In a number of STATES, the Governor and Lt Gov/AG run on separate lines so we frequently have the AG refusing to defend the Governor’s legal position on a new law or executive order the AG of the other party deems “unconstitutional”. We also have the relatively new practice of state legislatures hiring outside counsel to defend previously enacted laws where the incoming governor or AG won’t defend. However, the Lt. Governor in most states is relatively powerless except under weird circumstances.
For example, in Idaho, there are two right-wing Republican crazies serving as Governor/Lt. Gov. When the Gov (the more “moderate” of the two) went out of town, the acting Governor (aka the Lt. Gov) issued emergency executive orders revoking the real Governor’s executive orders on stuff like masks, etc). When the real governor returned home, he “reversed the reversals”. After two or three rounds of this circus, he simply stopped telling the Ltl Governor when he was heading to the airport.

When Spiro Agnew resigned, Nixon appointed Gerard Ford as his Vice President. When Richard Nixon resigned, Ford became President and appointed Nelson Rockefeller as his Vice President. When running again, Ford dropped Rockefeller for Bob Dole and lost the election to Jimmy Carter, so Ford was never elected President or Vice President.

Until the adoption of the Twentieth Amendment in 1933, presidential and congressional terms began and ended at noon on March 4. In 1849 March 4 fell on a Sunday. On the morning of March 4, President James Polk signed the last of the session’s legislation at the White House and at 6:30 a.m. recorded in his diary, “Thus closed my official term as President.” The Senate, having been in session all night, adjourned sine die at 7:00 a.m. President-elect Zachary Taylor, in observance of the Christian Sabbath, preferred not to conduct his inauguration on Sunday, March 4, and the ceremony was delayed until the next day. On Monday, March 5, Taylor took the oath of office on the Capitol’s east front portico and the transition of power was complete.3

The Inauguration of Gen. Zachary Taylor, 1849
The inaugural ceremonies for President Zachary Taylor took place on the east portico of the Capitol on March 5, 1849, one day after the expiration of his predecessor’s term.
Library of Congress
But if President Polk’s term ended on March 4 at noon, and Zachary Taylor was not sworn in until noon on March 5, who was president on March 4? Under the Presidential Succession Act of 1792 the Senate president pro tempore immediately followed the vice president in the line of presidential succession. Had Atchison been president from noon on March 4 to noon on March 5?
s there any truth to the idea that Atchison was the chief executive for a day? No. Atchison himself did not take the idea seriously. He wrote in 1880 that “I never for a moment acted as President of the U.S.” Congress did not make any determinations about who was president on March 4, and Atchison certainly did not sign official paperwork, but he did have some fun with it. He later joked that because of the long nights in session the previous days, he might have slept through his “term” except that his friends woke him to congratulate him and seek patronage jobs for their friends. “I recollect,” he said in 1889, “that Senator Mangum of North Carolina suggested that I make him secretary of state.” He liked to say that his presidency had been “the honestest administration this country ever had.”5

Letter Written by David Rice Atchison (D-MO), ca.1880, Addressing the Myth that he was President for One Day
In 1880, Atchison wrote in a letter, “I never for a moment acted as President of the U.S.”
Shapell Manuscript Foundation
In 1925 historian George Haynes—an authority on the Senate—dismissed the claims of Atchison’s presidency. The clearest indication that Atchison was not president, he noted, was the fact that Atchison’s existing term as senator and, more importantly, as president pro tempore, had ended at noon on March 4. The position of president pro tempore was, in fact, vacant. Atchison was not elected to the position again until the Senate’s special session convened at noon on March 5. Minutes later the president and vice president took their oaths.

David Atchinson was “President” for a day

To ujm: If Trump becomes the 45th and 47th presidents of the US, how many US presidents will be colossal jerks, 1 or 2?

“He is counted twice since his two terms were non-consecutive.”

I never understood that:
Counting Presidents can be done by counting people in which case Biden is the 45th person to serve as President
If we count terms. Then Washington was President twice, he won 1788, 1792 Adams was the third president Jefferson the 4th and 5th etc .
Why do terms matter only when non-consecutive. Either count people or terms

Trump is way higher on the jerk scale than on worst scale. The only people who are not happy with his policies are those who would disagree with anything Republican or those who claim that results are good, but he is not the direct cause of them.

Participant,

He isn’t

NOT MY PRESIDENT!

😂😂😂😂

A good thought – why are we all fighting for the “right“ President – why not one President for one half of the country, and another – for another, and everyone will be happy?

This is not (just) a joke: first, one of the original considerations for US Constitution was to have a 3–person Presidency, representing North, Middle, and South. More seriously, we have a federal system where everyone can live in a state with a preferred governor. On many cultural issues, you have a choice between complaining or moving to a state you like.

Shift towards more grandiose federal power created current situation where we all need to fight for federal offices. A lot of issues that President run on (right to life, arms, economic policies, education, environment, taxes) could be resolved at state level, leading to the Presidential campaign focusing on international affairs.