The President of the United States is regarded as a leader and a role model to the nation. However, many people associate him with scandal and a bad reputation of dishonesty. Hollywood often portrays the role of the presidency in movies and television shows. Some of these portrayals are fictional, but some are accurate. Dave is a movie, starring Kevin Kline as the President and his double that shows a scandal in the White House. They are trying to show how the American people view the President and his actions. Dave shows the overall role that the President has with some accurate details and some glamorized ones of the presidency.

Dave is a movie in which the Secret Service finds a double for the President who ends up acting as President while the real one is in a coma. Dave Kovich, the acting President, goes from being a person that finds jobs for people to being the President before he realizes what is going on. He assumes the duties of the President until the White House chief of staff, Bob Alexander, takes the scandal too far and Dave fires him. To cover up the scandal without getting caught, Dave pretends to have a stroke in order to switch the real president and allow t

When the United States first won its independence, the President was regarded as a man of honor, someone that the people looked up to. Now the President is the center of many jokes and is often criticized for his personal actions. Dave shows the criticism that the public gives to the President by making a movie about a scandal. Hollywood is glamorizing the scandals that occur in the White House and making them seem like an everyday occurrence. However, the people involved in the scandal that is originally framed on the Vice President were punished. The White House Chief of Staff, Bob Alexander, holds a press conference to tell the people that the President was involved in the scandal that the Vice President was being framed for. However, right before switching Dave with the real President, the acting Bill Mitchell discloses that Alexander was involved and he is punished. This shows that government officials that break the law are punished. The scandal that had occurred before the events in the movie was discovered and those involved were punished. However, the scandal of switching the president and hiding the real one in a coma is a much bigger deal and was never discovered. This gives people the idea that government officials can get away with some of their actions and this is not right.

More of the events in Dave are inaccurate and could never actually happen in real life. Even though most of the routine events of his day were normal and actually occur, the way he became the President could never really happen. There are too many officials and secret service men that would find out what the Press Secretary and Chief of Staff are doing. According to the Twenty-Fifth Amendment, the Vice President would be acting President as soon as the real one went into a coma. The scandal that they pull off to try and frame the Vice President would not be able to keep him from being President in reality. Also, there would never be a person that looks enough like the President to mislead the entire nation in the first place. No one would be able to pose as President for as long as Dave did

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