Presidents Who Lived Wild Lives Before Taking Office
Few professions in the world are as scrutinized and well-documented as the Presidency of the United States of America, so it might seem like every single aspect of all the former presidents’ lives has already been covered. But sometimes there’s just as much interesting material from before they were president as there is from their time in the White House. It takes an extraordinary kind of person to run for the highest station in America, so it makes sense that extraordinary origin stories are the norm for Oval Office occupants.
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@btetschner
January 31, 2026 at 10:27 pm
For the second step, Presidential State Dinners should be held for special events.
@btetschner
January 31, 2026 at 10:27 pm
9:13 The kids on the playground used to call me Benji and/or "Benji The Hunted."
@btetschner
January 31, 2026 at 10:27 pm
Continuing ANOTHER Weird History sequence!
Thinking of the second step for the Presidential State Dinner sequence*†…while watching this Weird History video!
* Inspired by the Weird History Food videos about restaurants.
† Let's rock!
@oscarphile
January 31, 2026 at 10:27 pm
I'm surprised they stopped with Bush Sr and never even touched on any of the first four who followed him, including his own son, who was rumored to have been something of a Wild Child before he sobered up and got his life together-ish.
@fallinstr2098
January 31, 2026 at 10:27 pm
The Benji reference 🙌🏼🙌🏼🤌🏼🐶❤️
@_Mr.Tuvok_
January 31, 2026 at 10:27 pm
I love how Abe showed TF out and Shields was just like, ‘nah I’m good’
@rocko44444444
January 31, 2026 at 10:27 pm
There was, I mean will be another fighter president, not just Lincoln. The name of the president is Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.
@missyouwish88
January 31, 2026 at 10:27 pm
Should've included Jimmy Carter's history with nuclear energy
@ladysnark3396
January 31, 2026 at 10:27 pm
Whoaaaa, there. You do NOT call a former director of the CIA, “mild.”
@MothicalBeast
January 31, 2026 at 10:27 pm
5:28 man really said “the man who passes the sentence swings the sword”
@drgeoffangel5422
January 31, 2026 at 10:27 pm
Ah shucks Cleetos, no President ever before, has done anything like Trump, he top Trump's them all! This is because, he has been an astronaut, a cowboy, a soldier, an airman, a biker, superman, sheriff, race car driver, secret agent, to name but a few, and he has a collection of photos from his life to prove it! He's currently adding to his resume, by becoming defendant Trump, and convicted felon, and traitor Trump, can't see any other President beating that wide range of personal experiences!
@user-sf7og5ke7p
January 31, 2026 at 10:27 pm
JFK
@strykerthepsycher8412
January 31, 2026 at 10:27 pm
I got that! During the Herbert Hoover segment, you said China like Donald Trump
@irighterotica
January 31, 2026 at 10:27 pm
Lincoln preferring to duel with a broad sword is pretty badass.
+5 to My respect for him
@Christensen_Custom_Guitars
January 31, 2026 at 10:27 pm
I'm a direct descendent of Edward Doty, a passenger and indentured servant on the Mayflower. He is noted in the history books as being one of the two people to be in the first duel in the New World. It was with knives and they both survived.
@Christensen_Custom_Guitars
January 31, 2026 at 10:27 pm
The first Bush gets great respect for his military service, but dang, he was as lousy a president as his son was.
@kleokleopatra3536
January 31, 2026 at 10:27 pm
busg should have been shot down !!!
@rebekahnelson225
January 31, 2026 at 10:27 pm
Jimmy Carter cleaned a nuclear reactor when he was in the Navy!! That should totally have been included! Or, for volume II 👀
You should also do one about what presidents did after their presidencies.
@k8tina
January 31, 2026 at 10:27 pm
You forgot Bill Clinton… he really loved the women (except for his own wife lol)
@theorderofthebees7308
January 31, 2026 at 10:27 pm
It’s so wild to think , that dueling was a thing in the United States just absolutely crazy
@Lemmy1550
January 31, 2026 at 10:27 pm
Abe vs taker…. yes.. book it!
@richarddemuth7077
January 31, 2026 at 10:27 pm
THAT chair business WASN'T the WILDEST thing Jefferson ever did! Notice the "tomcat" grin on the face of the man who described himself as "horny as a red-headed orangutang"! Putang, Tom?😁
@timothydurkan
January 31, 2026 at 10:27 pm
The book The Real Lincoln by Thomas DiLorenzo really shows what a true piece of garbage Lincoln was. I mean, he was a war criminal after all.
Like Benji. ❤️❤️❤️
Was the serviceman Kennedy saved a sailor or soldier???
@marygoround1292
January 31, 2026 at 10:27 pm
I didn't know Grover Cleveland was know as the Hangman of Buffalo!
@helidrill7464
January 31, 2026 at 10:27 pm
Definitely Teddy Roosevelt 🧸
@alex.harrison
January 31, 2026 at 10:27 pm
4:01 Too hard to spell the guy’s name right?
@tinasharp3767
January 31, 2026 at 10:27 pm
What about Bush Jr who was a widely known partier and cocaine user.
@Vic-ok2pp
January 31, 2026 at 10:27 pm
There were no soldiers on PT 109. They were sailors.
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