Though I remember hearing that that song was actually written about Senator Obama, and so would exist whether or not Obama became President in this universe.
You can also take those Obama and Trump references and say that maybe they ran for President in the MCU, got a lot of headlines and public exposure, but didn't end up winning the office.
Well, we know Trump became President in the MCU from dialogue. Piranha at one point talks about Mariah becoming "Black Mariah Trump" through her new fortune from the Atreus deal. Mariah laments "Now is not the time for alternative facts" when bemoaning Arturo's failed attempt to kill Luke with a Judas. And Luke's "I'm gonna make Harlem great again" when deciding to accept the club.
Okey Dokey!I think the reconciliation people made was that Obama was president from 2008 to 2012 but lost re-election to Ellis, and Ellis lost re-election to Trump.
Though that would mean that either Obama or Ellis was not nominated by their own party to run for a second term, which hasn't happened since Franklin Pierce.
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!I like to treat it as one of those continuity errors that happen in the comics all the time. The Netflix MCU shows take place in a slightly alternate timeline where the MetLife Building is still there instead of Stark Tower (you'd be amazed how many times I've seen people complain on some forums about the lack of Stark Tower in the Netflix shows, when it's obvious why it wasn't put innote ) and where Obama did his two terms as he did in the real world.
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That's my take on it. My theory was that Ellis's chance to run again got ruined by the aforementioned incident where his vice-president turned out to be in league with a terrorist organization. Such a catastrophic oversight would pretty much torpedo his political career. As if that wasn't enough, the implosion of SHIELD under the HYDRA infiltration also came to light during his mandate and there was the accords. He possibly also chose to voluntarily not run again after the trauma of being kidnapped by terrorists in Iron Man 3 and nearly being blown up, so it might have been a case of "well this has been a shitshow and I'm just going to step down now."
One presumes, but who knows, maybe the alien invasion boosted a third party somehow.
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If Ellis were a Democrat that would mean Obama was either removed from office, killed, or voluntarily chose not to run for re-election in 2012. That's certainly possible, but the scenario we were discussing was that Ellis was elected normally in 2012 but chose not to run for re-election in 2016. That would make him Obama's competition in 2012.
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Please, a mere alien invasion cannot defeat the unholy force that is the electoral college.
Edited by Anomalocaris20 on Sep 30th 2018 at 1:53:28 PM
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!Society probably pulled itself back together in some form eventually
There may be some manner of martial law though. Or maybe Steve is president like the time that happened
Forever liveblogging the AvengersFirst potential talks of season 3
. I think they'll make a renewal announcement alongside the Daredevil season 3 panel at NYCC.

He's President Ellis, in a probable homage to comic book writer Warren Ellis.
Obama was also mentioned in the first season of Luke Cage by way of Cottonmouth listening to a life performance of "Long Live the Chief", which references Barack Obama.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."