The President of the United States, often abbreviated to POTUS, is the head honcho of U.S. government. The Supreme Commander, the Commander-in-Chief, the Big Cheese, El Presidente, etc. He (or she) lives in a big white house on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. and has no financial overhead thanks to efforts of hard-working American tax payers. Your welcome, Mister President. Whenever some nasty crap comes along the way, the President is at the forefront of it all, protecting the nation from threats foreign and domestic - even if those threats come from outer space. The effectiveness of the President is bolstered by his support staff, which includes the Vice President, the presidential cabinet (which is not actually a cabinet, but an assemblage of appointees) the members of the Senate and House of Representatives as well as the Supreme Court. The President is often the target of nefarious forces, so to countermand this, he has his Secret Service, which universally consists of stoic looking gentlemen in black suits and dark sunglasses who wear funny-looking squiggly things in their ears.
In DC Comics titles there is an alternate reality dubbed Earth-Three, where evil-doers double as the other-worldly good-counterparts. As such, it was John Wilkes Booth who was President during the American Civil War, not Abraham Lincoln. [1]
