History YMMV / WhiteHouseDown

* StrawmanPolitical: A CaptainErsatz of BarackObama has personally brokered a workable plan for peace in the Middle East, and all it requires is complete and total withdrawal of the American military from the region. Evil Republican warmongers come up with a dastardly plan to try and kill him so that they can nuke people. Fauxbama then has to be a BadAss to survive and stop the evil conservative plot so he can bring about world peace.

** Muriel Walker when she [[spoiler:tells her husband to press on when he mentions that he's doing it for their dead son]], despite the fact that [[spoiler:she was against Martin's plans earlier and has been given literally no reason as to how this is supposed to honor their dead son]].

* TheWoobie: Emily.

* {{Anvilicious}}: The villains are an assembly of ultra-right wingers, including white supremacists, mercenaries and disillusioned soldiers, funded by the “military-industrial complex”. Somebody's making a point. Loudly.

* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler:Raphelson]]. [[spoiler:His scheme at the end was to [[MoralEventHorizon blow the White House up, erase all of the terrorists' profiles, and try to start war against America]].]]

** Then again, SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped

* CriticalResearchFailure: The key chain for the Presidential Limo is labeled "Ground Force One". Although a Ground Force One does exist, it is ''not'' the Presidential Limo, which is actually known as "The Beast". The real Ground Force One is the Presidential Traveling Bus. Since featurettes for the movie show that the filmmaker's ''already knew'' what the Limo was called (as well as the sheer amount of research that seems to have been done on the White House history, layout, and lore), the decision to refer to the movie's Limo as Ground Force One is apparently because RuleOfFunny.

** Muriel Walker when she [[spoiler:allows her husband, Martin, to continue with his plan]], despite that [[spoiler:she was against Martin's plans earlier]].

* MoralEventHorizon: Martin Walker crosses it when he [[spoiler:threatens to [[WouldHurtAChild kill Emily]] if President Sawyer doesn't surrender]].
** Arguably sooner since [[spoiler:he plans to destroy the entirety of the Middle East to end the war then and there; killing millions of people, starting ''[[{{Hypocrisy}} another]]'' war, all because his son was killed on faulty orders.]]

* StrawmanPolitical: TheMovie
** To clarify: A CaptainErsatz of BarackObama has personally brokered a workable plan for peace in the Middle East, and all it requires is complete and total withdrawal of the American military from the region. Evil Republican warmongers come up with a dastardly plan to try and kill him so that they can nuke people. Fauxbama then has to be a BadAss to survive and stop the evil conservative plot so he can bring about world peace.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: One lady mentioning that the stock market is collapsing.
** It's waved off by the Speaker of the House giving the order to close the markets and banks, fearing a run.
* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler:Raphelson]]. [[spoiler:His scheme at the end was to [[MoralEventHorizon blow the White House up, erase all of the terrorist's profiles, and try to start war against America]] ]].

** Arguably sooner since [[spoiler:he plans to destroy the entirety of the Middle East to end the war then and there; killing millions of people, starting [[{{Hypocrisy}} ''another'']] war, all because his son was killed on faulty orders.]]

** Arguably sooner since [[spoiler:he plans to destroy the entirety of the Middle East to end the war then and there; killing millions of people, starting [[Hypocrisy ''another'']] war, all because his son was killed on faulty orders.]]

* CriticalResearchFailure: The key chain for the Presidential Limo is labeled "Ground Force One". Although a Ground Force One does exist, it is ''not'' the Presidential Limo, which is actually known as "The Beast". The real Ground Force One is the Presidential Traveling Bus. Since featurettes for the movie show that the filmmaker's ''already knew'' what the Limo was called, the decision to refer to the movie's Limo as Ground Force One is apparently because RuleOfFunny.

* {{Anvilicious}}: The villains are an assembly of ultra-right wingers, including white supremacists, mercenaries and disillusioned soldiers, funded by the “military-industrial complex”.

** "I choose the pen!"

* CriticalResearchFailure: There is a "Ground Force One", but it's ''not'' the Presidential Limo. That car is actually known as "The Beast". The real Ground Force One is the Presidential Traveling Bus. Since featurettes for the movie show that the filmmaker's ''already knew'' what the Limo was called, the decision to refer to the movie's Limo as Ground Force One is apparently because RuleOfFunny.

* CriticalResearchFailure: There is a "Ground Force One", but it's ''not'' the Presidential Limo. That car is actually known as "The Beast". Ground Force One is really the code-name for the Presidential Traveling Bus. Since featurettes for the movie show that the filmmaker's ''already knew'' what the Limo was called, the decision to refer to the movie's Limo as Ground Force One is apparently because RuleOfFunny.

* {{Narm}}: "You'll go to jail for that!"

* {{Narm}}: "You'll go to jail for that!"