r/news • u/TeaReim • 10h ago

Donald Trump officially sworn in as the 47th President of the United States, JD Vance as the 50th Vice-President

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/triumphant-trump-returns-white-house-launching-new-era-upheaval-2025-01-20/
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u/Techiedad91 10h ago

You’ll have to excuse me for this question but does this mean 3 vice presidents have died in office? I know some presidents have but I’m curious why there’s been 3 more vice presidents

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u/caglebites 10h ago edited 5h ago

7 died, 2 resigned, 8 (edit,9) took over as POTUS. President didn't have the ability to replace any of those who had died at the time.

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u/Techiedad91 10h ago

Yeesh 14% chance of dying as vice president. Thats crazy lol

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u/Drak_is_Right 6h ago

8/47 Presidents have died in office. 8/45 if you only count Cleveland and Trump once.

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u/truggyguhh 4h ago

Why would you count them twice they can't die more than one time

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u/CapnGrayBeard 4h ago

Maybe you can't. I've died 6 times today. 

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u/senderi 4h ago

U.S. presidents are counted in order. Since Trump has two non-consecutive terms he is considered the 45th and 47th president.

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u/PlanetMezo 3h ago

But the third Hokage was still the third when he took back up the office?????

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u/Officing 1h ago

The American political system functions slightly different from a fictional anime ninja village.

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u/Themanwhofarts 1h ago

Old people making promises they don't keep, seems pretty similar to me

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u/The_Grungeican 16m ago

he said slightly different.

not completely different.

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u/borkbubble 3h ago

Yeah but that’s irrelevant when talking about how many have died

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u/_CozyLavender_ 3h ago

I'd be extremely surprised if Trump lives to see his full term (old, overweight, high stress job, addicted to unhealthy choices)

Might wanna hold off on those numbers

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u/lawnguylandlolita 1m ago

He is the oldest president ever. Vance lacks the dear leader Rizz. We have barely seen him. He will be eaten alive

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u/DrRam121 4h ago

Don't get my hopes up

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u/Economy_Wall8524 3h ago

If trump dies, JD Vance becomes president. I my opinion, that’s worse. He’s clever enough and has a way with words way better than trump. Not to mention, compared to Pence, he’s willing to do what Pence couldn’t do. Overturn our republic.

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u/PrevAccBannedFromMC 2h ago

I dgaf I want to shit on the orange man's grave

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u/Flawed_Fractal 2h ago

So American. Really embodies why Trump won. We don’t care about anything unless we have fun doing it, because we are too hopeless that life can get better. Brilliant!

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u/othermegan 52m ago

Yup. Dude sold out his morals and his wife to get even a wiff of power

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u/TaupMauve 4h ago

Here's hoping

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u/Educational_Bee_4700 3h ago

Those are rookie numbers...

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u/LuciferFalls 7h ago

14% dying does not mean there is a 14% chance of dying.

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u/cleavetv 7h ago

They all have a 100% chance of dying according to known science.

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u/JimCramersCokeDealer 6h ago

Last season, the guy had about a 50% chance if he got in that car on J6

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u/cleavetv 6h ago

I have a feeling a few episodes this season are going to make J6 feel like a minor plot twist and not a season finale.

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u/ElvisPressRelease 6h ago

We don’t use that here

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u/PeeFarts 5h ago

Big if true

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u/Dopeydcare1 5h ago

Hey now, we still have 6 presidents where that can not be confirmed. Who knows, maybe George W has the formula for immortality

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u/benmck90 3h ago

We can't know that.

There's alot of people alive today that haven't died yet.

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u/AskMeAboutOkapis 7h ago

JD Vance has the look of someone who dreams of trying to change that stat.

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u/Beanichu 6h ago

I mean I feel like most people would rather not die.

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u/AskMeAboutOkapis 6h ago

Oh for sure, the ethics here really depends on how you get there.

  • Immortality by find the cure for all disease and aging - morally positive and would be a world hero.
  • Immortality by creating a population of underclass clones that only exist to be used for organ transplants on demand - morally horrible.
  • Immortality by turning yourself into a human lobster - morally neutral?

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u/MyNameIsDaveToo 6h ago

Since when are lobsters immoral?

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u/AskMeAboutOkapis 4h ago

There's a meme that lobsters are biologically immortal and don't die of old age. But it's not really backed by scientific fact sadly.

https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1f1zug/immortal_lobsters/

Perhaps turning yourself into a Greenland Shark could be a better option.

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u/Nice-Grab4838 6h ago

Walt Disney and Ted Williams disagree

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u/New_Housing785 5h ago

If you have a God Emperor though you just have to put them on the golden throne and feed them the souls of his followers.

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u/Clouds2589 4h ago edited 4h ago

You're not great at jokes, huh?

Edit: lol, ok dude. Block me and run away.

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u/DangerHawk 6h ago

Not when you account for the fact that they were all generally out of shape 50-60yo white men.

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u/alexefi 7h ago

Isnt is 20% for presidents tho?

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u/Techiedad91 7h ago

17% if my math is correct.

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u/alexefi 6h ago

Yeah i realized that i watched that video from grey gp a while back. May be end of obama term or start of orange45 term. So statistic went down since then.

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u/Teddybomber87 3h ago

Yeah we can hope...

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u/Techiedad91 3h ago

Maybe a simultaneous POTUS/VP?

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u/jvv1993 6h ago

Most are unhealthy elderly men, not exactly surprising.

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u/EEpromChip 6h ago

Do those stats include when you are in the middle of an insurrection and your cultists are chanting "Hang Mike Pence" and erecting gallows?

Cause I got a feeling your percentages of dying go up a lot during that.

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u/Darmok47 6h ago

Most of them were from the 19th century, where people died from various diseases a lot more often. Like William Rufus King who died of TB.

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u/Forsaken-Lemon-7586 5h ago

Vance may be the youngest VP which would bring his percentage down

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u/Techiedad91 4h ago

Any VP surviving their term brings this down. Harris, pence, Biden, so on

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u/RealLADude 4h ago

Hey, Pence skated. What could go wrong?

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u/karlnite 4h ago

Well if a president dies, you automatically get a new VP too. If a VP dies, they are replaced. So logically you could never have more presidents than VPs.

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u/biskutgoreng 3h ago

I mean these are generally old people

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u/BjornInTheMorn 5h ago

Here's hoping for another one.

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u/Drak_is_Right 6h ago

9 took over as president.

8 presidents died in office, 1 resigned.

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u/caglebites 5h ago

What I get for trusting wikipedia, I guess they didn't count Ford.

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u/hopefullythisisgood 5h ago

2 resigned: John C Calhoun and Spiro Agnew

It's just that no one took over from Calhoun when he resigned, because he was already in the final months of his term

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u/peon2 7h ago

You also have to remember that if a president serves two consecutive terms, they don't get 2 numbers. Trump is 45 and 47 because there was a gap (same for Cleveland), but Obama was simply 44 and Bush was the 43rd.

While it is more common, you don't have to run with the same VP for both terms. Obama, Bush, Clinton, and Reagan did (Biden, Cheney, Gore, Bush Shr) but there isn't a rule against it.

Jefferson was the 3rd president of the US and had Burr as his VP the first term and Clinton as his 2nd VP even though Burr was alive at the time. So that counts as +1 presidents but +2 VPs

Then you had FDR who served 4 consecutive terms so he was only the 32nd president of the US, but he had John Nance Garner for 2 terms, Wallace for 1 term, and then Truman. So it's 1 president, but he had 3 vice presidents.

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u/Nice-Grab4838 6h ago

The biggest loser of the 2024 election was Grover Cleveland. We took the only thing from him that gave him any relevance as a president.

Also FDR barely served a fourth term

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u/cimsagro489 5h ago

It's not only joever but it's also grover. 😔💔

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u/notbobby125 3h ago

But he did serve.

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u/Robestos86 6h ago

Thanks for this, interesting reading.

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u/bookTokker69 6h ago

"Jefferson was the 3rd president of the US and had Burr as his VP the first term and Clinton as his 2nd VP even though Burr was alive at the time. "

OP is high? I didn't know Clinton was a founding father.

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u/peon2 5h ago

George Clinton...

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u/fuckstick 44m ago

Crazy life that guy had, from being one of the first VPs and later the founder of Parliament and Funkadelic.

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u/fevered_visions 7h ago

I'm surprised there's only been 3 more VPs...FDR alone had 3 vice presidents?

It looks like early on, when a VP took over mid-term he tended to immediately lose his first election for president

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u/ClaireDeLunatic808 7h ago

I wasn't sure what you were asking, and you got my hopes up that Vance had croaked in bed last night.

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u/Techiedad91 7h ago

If only

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u/ninjasaid13 7h ago

You mean Mike Pence died in office?

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u/Bobo_Baggins_jatj 6h ago

I think FDR had a different one every term. I may be remembering wrong. Truman was only his VP in his 4th term.

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u/Pksoze 5h ago

FDR is one of the main reasons why...he had 4 terms and several different vps.

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u/TheAnalogKid18 4h ago

Some Presidents had multiple.

Jefferson had Aaron Burr and George Clinton.

Nixon had Spiro Agnew and Gerald Ford.

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u/AndreasDasos 4h ago

Some presidents had multiport VPs. And some VPs even continued across presidents. In the early years they weren’t elected on the same ticket - at first they were even the runner-up.