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If POTUS is a woman

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Springcatkin · 08/11/2020 20:02

who is married to a man what would he be called? First Man?

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DowntonCrabby · 08/11/2020 20:03

I assume it would be gentleman.

GeorgieTheGorgeousGoat · 08/11/2020 20:03

First Gentleman

x2boys · 08/11/2020 20:30

How would it have worked if Hilary Clinton had beaten Trump in the last election ,how would they have been addressed?

x2boys · 08/11/2020 20:30

Obviously I mean How would they have addressed Hilary and Bill?

Guineapigbridge · 08/11/2020 20:32

In NZ Clarke Gayford is called "Our First Bloke" Grin

WitchWife · 08/11/2020 20:32

I suspect they wouldn’t bother with a silly title and would just call him “Doug Emhoff” or “the President and her husband”

UtterlyUnimaginativeUsername · 08/11/2020 20:33

@x2boys

Obviously I mean How would they have addressed Hilary and Bill?
Isn't Bill still entitled to be called Mr President? So Mr and Madam President. Or maybe Madam and Mr President.
JohnLapsleyParlabane · 08/11/2020 20:33

Former Presidents are still 'Mr President' AFAIK so if Hilary had won his title would have been unchanged and they would have been POTUS and FPOTUS.

BarbaraofSeville · 08/11/2020 20:40

When there was a woman president in the West Wing, it was Madam President and the First Gentleman.

laidbacklife · 08/11/2020 20:46

It’d be First Gentleman. So Kamala Harris’ husband will now become Second Gentleman and if she ascends to POTUS in 2024 then he’ll be First Gentleman. But it’ll be interesting to see if they use that title or if they reserve such belittling forms of address only for females...

ramarama · 08/11/2020 20:53

I heard the term 'first gentleman' used on US TV today, so maybe that's an accepted term??

Conniethesensible · 08/11/2020 21:24

Dear lord why are we having a thread about this

Whenismumhome · 08/11/2020 23:41

@Conniethesensible

Dear lord why are we having a thread about this
Because the OP had a question and wanted to know?

I had wondered what the name of a female president’s husband would be too. What exactly is wrong with this thread?

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