The 5 Presidents Best Fit For Twitter

Either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump will be the next President of the United States. This Twitter interaction happened, which feels like a landmark of sorts.

As we enter into a new era for the U.S. Presidency, here are the five presidents who would have been (or are) the best at Twitter.

John F. Kennedy: Kennedy was quick-witted, self-deprecating, and the consummate room worker. He had a way with words. JFK would have dropped one-liners on Twitter, received all the likes on Instagram, and done whatever one does to be good at Snapchat. Social media, however, may have put a major damper on his extra-curricular activities.

Barack Obama: Yes, he has hired joke writers who were down with the youth. Still, he has excellent timing and can drop a savage zinger with the best of them. He holds his own on talk shows. He has sailed through nearly eight years of Twitter presidency with his coolness intact, except when he wears jeans.

Abraham Lincoln: Lincoln was no Kennedy in the looks department. But, he was by most accounts sarcastic, funny, and self-deprecating. He deftly handled the one great crisis that could have torn our nation apart. We suspect he would have adapted to the 140-character limit. Sub-tweets of McClellan would have been epic.

Ronald Reagan: Twitter would have torn apart the factual accuracy of his trademark anecdotes, mocked his old man pajamas, and been taken aback by his politics. But, he was still probably the best joke teller ever to inhabit the Oval Office. Though, it’s not certain whether he could have adapted to today’s punchier “drop the mic” humor.

Teddy Roosevelt: Roosevelt was a man for a different era, when earnestness, optimism, and relentless masculinity were viewed as virtues rather than qualities to be mercilessly mocked. We’d like to think his bubbly enthusiasm and deployment of colorful language (“circumcised skunks”) would have made him as endearing as he was in his time.

Not So Great…

Franklin Roosevelt: Affable. Eloquent. Well intentioned, but better distilled. Off the cuff observations would have sunk him.

Richard Nixon: Charmless, stilted, and would have been insufferable on football weekends tweeting about his fantasy teams.

Bill Clinton: Smart, well read, and unnervingly charming in person. But, his words are not particularly funny or quotable. The 140 character limit would have been a problem.

Lyndon Johnson: He would have been the greatest, which is why aids would not have let him anywhere social media.

George Washington: Profoundly conscious of the precedent he left. Great for the nation. Boring for social media purposes.