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Line 1: {{trope}} [[File:View of Oval ~~Office020~~Office in 2017.jpg\|~~frame~~thumb\|400px\|Nobody behind the Resolute Desk? He's there. You just can't see him.]] {{quote\|"''Well, who did you ''expect'' to see -- the ''President''?'' Line 49: === Literature === * The opening chapter of ''[[~~Harry Potter/~~Harry Potter and ~~The~~the Half-Blood Prince (novel)\|Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]'' ~~book~~ has a scene with a new Prime Minister that visibly strains to avoid naming him or his party. Entertainingly, it still manages to be specific enough to cause a [[Continuity Snarl]]—based on other indications about when the books were set, the PM during ''Half-Blood Prince'' should have be [[John Major]], but it refers to his predecessor (who would then be [[Margaret Thatcher]]) as "he". ** Apparently some of the PM's mannerisms were based on those of [[Tony Blair]], who was PM at the time the book was written (but not at the time in which the book is supposedly set). * [[Stephen King]]'s novel ''Dreamcatcher'' was finished in mid-November 2000, at which time the outcome of the US presidential election was still in doubt; as such, when the President gives a national address regarding the events of the novel, the book strains to avoid mentioning whether the president was meant to be [[George W. Bush]] or Al Gore.