YMMV / Our Cartoon President

• Animation Age Ghetto: At one point in time, TV Guide UK listed this show as being for children because the title had the word "cartoon" in it, resulting in cartoons like Fireman Sam and Horrid Henry being shown as recommended. They would later fix this mistake when it was recategorized as "Comedy".
• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • The pilot has Stephen Miller engaging in a bizarre ritual that combines Hollywood Satanism and BDSM as he writes a fanatical white supremacist manifesto — and that's apparently him at his most moderate.
  • Trump and Bill Clinton putting their political differences aside to mourn their late friend, convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
    Clinton: You traded your jet for wings, brother!
    • Likewise, when Hillary Clinton shows up at the final debate between Trump and Biden, she closes her argument with "Stay strong, Ghislaine!" which implies a similar relationship between her and Epstein's associate Ghislaine Maxwell as it does between Bill Clinton and Epstein.
  • Anytime Rudy Giuliani brings up 9/11 as a distraction, or to win sympathy.
  • Amy Klobuchar's Hair-Trigger Temper, bullying, and tendency to jump straight to death threats of varying degrees of explicitness — all contrasted with her Minnesota Nice accent — are always funnier than they should be, but her implying that she's somehow responsible for Kirk Douglas' death takes the cake.
  • When Trump literally flies over his supporters in Air Force One and has the pilot write "Trump > Jesus" in the sky, a Loony Fan in the crowd demands that Trump empty the plane's toilet tank on them.
    • Similarly, when Trump holds a rally despite having coronavirus, he has wires on the ceiling carry him across the crowd, and someone in the audience (the same guy as before?) shouts "Infect me, Daddy!"
  • Biden's portrayal as a senile weirdo who can't go one scene without saying something perverted is just so inappropriate that you can't help but laugh.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • In "Civil War", Donald Trump becomes Improperly Paranoid towards Mike Pence, becoming convinced that he's plotting to take the Presidency for himself in a moment of weakness, and uses his authority to put him through water-torture multiple times to make him confess. In Real Life, Donald Trump began attacking Mike Pence for not using his authority to overturn the 2020 election when it was announced that Joe Biden had won, insurrectionists chanting "hang Mike Pence" during the January 6th Insurrection.
  • In "Impeachment", Chief Justice John Roberts tells the senators, "same seats in two years when we have to do this again". Trump would be impeached a second time in only one year. Even more so as apparently Chief Justice Roberts really didn't want to do it again, and the second impeachment trial was presided by the President pro tempore of the Senate instead.
  • The B-plot of "Wartime President" ends with Jake Tapper forming a heartwarming Odd Friendship with the Cuomo brothers (Tapper's CNN co-worker Chris Cuomo and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo). In early 2021, Andrew Cuomo was widely criticized for cases of sexual harassment and his handling of the COVID-19 Pandemic, with Tapper doing much of CNN's reporting on his downfall.^note With Chris acknowledging the scandals and recusing himself from reporting on them due to the conflict of interest.
  • In the show, Hillary Clinton seemed to have suffered a Sanity Slippage after losing the 2016 Election and seems to think that she actually won the election. In Real Life, Donald Trump lost the 2020 Election to Joe Biden and has since insisted that he actually won, the "Stop the Steal" Movement based around the premise that Donald Trump actually won the election and that America's polling system has been illegally rigged against him by corrupt elites.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • An episode is titled "Madam Vice President," as a way of mocking Mike Pence. After the 2020 election, the vice presidency is, for the first time ever, taken by a woman, Kamala Harris.
  • The series depicts Mitt Romney in "Impeachment" of decrying Trump as both a criminal and existential threat to America, only to then vote "Not Guilty". Romney made national headlines for giving a similar speech in real-life, and then voted "Guilty".
• Retroactive Recognition: Ziwe Fumudoh, a writer for the show who also voiced various characters, most prominently Kamala Harris (besides also voicing various characters in the other animated series produced by Stephen Colbert, Tooning Out the News), would later become more famous after Showtime gave her her own late night talk show, Ziwe.
• Tear Jerker:
  • When the other candidates bully Bill de Blasio over being "only" a mayor so he breaks down in tears.
  • Trump's hilariously abusive parenting veers into genuinely sad sometimes.
    Don Jr: My dad didn't spend any time with me, and I turned out great. What the hell, bartender?! Why are you ignoring me?! Why don't you like me?! [sobbing] Please just give me a hug, bartender!
  • The first cold open after the COVID-19 Pandemic has a fairly bleak tone, following the deaths of nearly 200,000 Americans.
    Anderson Cooper: Life with COVID is surreal, but watching crowds cheer the man who brought this hell upon us makes me feel like I'm floating through space.

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