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| body = the <br> United States
| insignia = Seal of the President of the United States.svg
| insigniacaption = [[Seal of the President of the United States]]
| flag = Flag of the President of the United States.svg
| flagsize = 130
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| flagcaption = [[Flag of the President of the United States]]
| image = File:Joe Biden presidential portrait (cropped).jpg
| incumbent = [[Joe Biden]]
| incumbentsince = January 20, 2021
| department = {{plainlist|
* [[Federal government of the United States|Executive Branch of the U.S. federal government]]
* [[Executive Office of the President of the United States|Executive Office of the President]]
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* [[Mr. President (title)|Mr. President]]<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1891/08/02/archives/how-to-address-the-president-he-is-not-your-excellency-or-your.html |work=The Washington Star |title=How To Address The President; He Is Not Your Excellency Or Your Honor, But Mr. President |date=August 2, 1891 |via=The New York Times |access-date=August 25, 2021 |archive-date=January 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210112171516/https://www.nytimes.com/1891/08/02/archives/how-to-address-the-president-he-is-not-your-excellency-or-your.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.usgs.gov/usgs-manual/handbook/hb/431-2-h/chap4.html |title=USGS Correspondence Handbook—Chapter 4 |date=July 18, 2007 |publisher=Usgs.gov |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120926000950/http://www.usgs.gov/usgs-manual/handbook/hb/431-2-h/chap4.html |archive-date=September 26, 2012 |access-date=November 15, 2012}}</ref><br>(informal)
* [[The Honourable#United States|The Honorable]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ita.doc.gov/ita_sec/Address%20and%20Salutation.htm |title=Models of Address and Salutation |publisher=Ita.doc.gov |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100720073107/http://www.ita.doc.gov/ita_sec/Address%20and%20Salutation.htm |archive-date=July 20, 2010 |access-date=September 4, 2010}}</ref><br>(formal)
* [[Excellency|His Excellency]]<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120927014351/http://www.un.int/protocol/documents/Hspmfm.pdf Heads of State, Heads of Government, Ministers for Foreign Affairs], Protocol and Liaison Service, [[United Nations]]. Retrieved November 1, 2012.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2010/09/01/remarks-president-obama-president-mubarak-his-majesty-king-abdullah-prim |title=Remarks by President Obama, President Mubarak, His Majesty King Abdullah, Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Abbas Before Working Dinner |last=The White House Office of the Press Secretary |date=September 1, 2010 |via=[[NARA|National Archives]] |work=[[whitehouse.gov]] |access-date=July 19, 2011 |archive-date=February 6, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170206105219/https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2010/09/01/remarks-president-obama-president-mubarak-his-majesty-king-abdullah-prim |url-status=live }}</ref><br>(diplomatic)
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* [[Head of state]]
* [[Head of government]]
}}
| abbreviation = POTUS
| member_of = {{plainlist|
* [[Cabinet of the United States|Cabinet]]
* [[United States Domestic Policy Council|Domestic Policy Council]]
* [[National Economic Council (United States)|National Economic Council]]
* [[United States National Security Council|National Security Council]]
}}
| residence = [[White House]]
| seat = [[Washington, D.C.]]
| appointer = [[United States Electoral College|Electoral College]]
| termlength = [[Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution|Four years, renewable once]]
| constituting_instrument = [[Constitution of the United States]]
| formation = {{date and age|1789|3|4|p=1|br=1}}<ref>{{Cite book |last=Maier |first=Pauline |title=Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787–1788 |date=2010 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |isbn=978-0-684-86854-7 |location=New York, New York |page=433 |author-link=Pauline Maier}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/march-4-a-forgotten-huge-day-in-american-politics/ |title=March 4: A forgotten huge day in American history |date=March 4, 2013 |publisher=[[National Constitution Center]] |location=Philadelphia |access-date=July 29, 2018 |archive-date=February 24, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180224184927/https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/march-4-a-forgotten-huge-day-in-american-politics |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| salary = $400,000 (annually)
| website = {{URL2|https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/president-biden/|whitehouse.gov}}
|deputy=[[Vice President of the United States]]|inaugural=[[George Washington]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/presidential-election-of-1789/ |title=Presidential Election of 1789 |website=Digital Encyclopedia |publisher=Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, George Washington's Mount Vernon |location=Mount Vernon, Virginia |access-date=July 29, 2018 |archive-date=July 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180730234529/https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/presidential-election-of-1789/ |url-status=live }}</ref>}}
{{Politics of the United States|expanded=Executive}}
The '''president of the United States''' ('''POTUS''')<ref>{{Cite web|title=POTUS - Presidents of the United States|url=https://potus.com/|access-date=2023-11-23|language=en}}</ref> is the [[head of state]] and [[head of government]] of the [[United States|United States of America]] and the [[Commander-in-Chief|commander-in-chief]] of the [[United States Armed Forces]]. The president is also the head of the [[Executive (government)|executive branch]] of the [[federal government of the United States]] and is the chairman of the [[Cabinet of the United States|presidential cabinet]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=President of the United States|url=https://ballotpedia.org/President_of_the_United_States|access-date=2023-11-23|website=Ballotpedia|language=en}}</ref>

[[Joe Biden]] is the [[Presidency of Joe Biden|46th]] and current president of the United States, [[Inauguration of Joe Biden|in office]] since January 2021, term expires on January 20, 2025.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Joe Biden: The President|url=https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/president-biden/|access-date=2023-02-21|website=The White House|language=en-US|archive-date=2021-02-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210205094010/https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/president-biden/|url-status=live}}</ref>

== Eligibility and requirements ==
[[Article Two of the United States Constitution#Clause 5: Qualifications for office|Article II, Section 1, Clause 5]] of the constitution states for a person to serve as president must:
* be a [[Natural-born-citizen clause|natural-born citizen]] of the United States. <ref group=note>Foreign-born American citizens who met the age and residency requirements at the time the Constitution was adopted were also eligible for the presidency. However, this allowance has since become obsolete.</ref>
* be at least thirty-five years old.
* be a permanent resident in the United States for at least fourteen years.

==Election process and presidential terms==
The president is elected by the people through the [[Electoral College (United States)|Electoral College]] to a four-year term, along with the vice presidential candidate or the incumbent vice president as their running mate.<ref>[http://www.whitehouse.gov/our_government/executive_branch/ Our Government • The Executive Branch] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090126203410/http://www.whitehouse.gov/our_government/executive_branch/ |date=2009-01-26 }}, The White House.</ref> The presidential candidate or incumbent president must have at least 270 electoral college votes in order to win the election.

Under the [[Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution|Twenty-second amendment]] to the constitution prevents anyone from being elected president more than twice. This amendment was added after [[Franklin D. Roosevelt|Franklin Roosevelt]] served four terms from 1933 until his death in 1945.

== President-elect of the United States ==
[[File:Office of the President-Elect Logo.png|thumb|Office of President-elect logo of Joe Biden]]
The [[president-elect of the United States]] is the candidate who has won the [[United States presidential election]] and is awaiting inauguration to become the president.

==Presidential Inauguration==
The president-elect and vice president-elect immediately began their four-year team on [[United States presidential inauguration|inauguration day]] every four years on January 20. The original inauguration date was held on March 4, but was later changed in 1933.

== Executive Office of the President ==
[[File:Flag of the Executive Office of the President of the United States.svg|thumb|Flag of the Executive Office of the President of the United States]]
The [[Executive Office of the President of the United States|Executive Office of the President]] consists of the offices and agencies that support the work of the president at the center of the executive branch of the [[Federal government of the United States|United States federal government]]. The office consists of several offices and agencies, such as the White House Office, the staff working directly for and reporting to the president, including White House staff, the [[United States National Security Council|National Security Council]], and the [[Office of Management and Budget]].

==Presidential line of succession==
[[File:Lyndon B. Johnson taking the oath of office, November 1963.jpg|thumb|Lyndon B. Johnson takes the presidential oath of office aboard Air Force One after the [[assassination of John F. Kennedy]] on November 22, 1963.]]
If the president dies, resigns, or is impeached, the vice president will succeed the presidential office and duties. fifteen other federal government officials also rank in the succession of the president.

[[Abraham Lincoln]], [[James A. Garfield]], [[William McKinley]], and [[John F. Kennedy]] were assassinated while in office. [[William Henry Harrison]], [[Zachary Taylor]], [[Warren G. Harding]] and [[Franklin Roosevelt]] died from illness while president. [[Calvin Coolidge]] became president, when [[Warren G. Harding]] died while in office.

[[Richard Nixon]] is the only U.S. president to have resigned from office.

[[Andrew Johnson]], [[Bill Clinton]], and [[Donald Trump]] are the only presidents to have been [[impeachment|impeached]].

== Travel and Transportation ==
{{Gallery|File:Limo One 2022.jpg|United States presidential state car ("The Beast")|File:Air Force 1 landing at Pittsburgh IAP.jpg|Air Force One (presidential airplane)|File:President Trump Departs for Florida (49193804107).jpg|Marine One (presidential helicopter)}}

== Residences ==
[[File:White House north and south sides.jpg|thumb|White House, the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States.]]

The [[White House]] is the [[official residence]] of the president and the [[First Family of the United States|first family of the United States]]. it has been the official residence of every U.S. president since [[John Adams]] in 1800.
[[File:Camp David.jpg|thumb|[[Camp David]], [[Frederick County, Maryland]], the official presidential retreat of the president of the United States.]]

[[Camp David]] is the official presidential retreat residence if the president decides to go on vacation along with his family.

[[File:President's Guest House.jpg|thumb|[[Blair House]], [[Washington, D.C.|Washington D.C.]], the official presidential guest house of the president of the United States.]]

[[Blair House]] is the official presidential guest house for foreign diplomats and heads of state.

== Protection ==
[[File:United States President Barack Obama with Senator Sherrod Brown, Representative Mary Jo Kilroy, and Secret Service personnel arriving at Port Columbus International Airport.jpg|thumb|[[Barack Obama|President Barack Obama]] surrounded by Secret Service agents.]]

The [[United States Secret Service]] is in charge with protecting the president and the first family. As part of their protection, presidents, first ladies, their children and other immediate family members are given Secret Service [[Code name|codenames]]. These codenames are used for security and safety reasons.

==Living former presidents of the United States==
There are five living former presidents of the United States.
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==Presidential rankings and approval ratings==
{{main|Historical rankings of presidents of the United States}}

By a majority of historical sources by historians or by the American people; [[Abraham Lincoln]], [[George Washington]], [[Franklin D. Roosevelt ]], [[Dwight D. Eisenhower ]], [[Woodrow Wilson]], [[Ronald Reagan]], [[John F. Kennedy]], [[Calvin Coolidge]], [[Bill Clinton]] and [[Thomas Jefferson]] are ranked high on polls.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-02-17/history-presidents-truman-jefferson-wilson | title=Truman and Coolidge go up, Jefferson and Jackson go down. How history remembers presidents | website=[[Los Angeles Times]] | date=17 February 2020 | access-date=2021-04-22 | archive-date=2021-04-22 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422230430/https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-02-17/history-presidents-truman-jefferson-wilson | url-status=live }}</ref>

On the other hand; [[James Buchanan]], [[Warren G. Harding]], [[Herbert Hoover]], [[Richard Nixon]], [[George W. Bush]] and [[Franklin Pierce]] are thought to be the worst.

==Presidential libraries and museums==
{{Main|Presidential library}}
Since [[Herbert Hoover]], each president has created an institutional place known as a [[presidential library]] for preserving and making available his papers, records, and other documents and materials. There are currently thirteen presidential libraries in the NARA system.

Several presidential libraries contain the graves of the president such as [[Richard Nixon]], [[Ronald Reagan]] and [[George H. W. Bush]].

==Sources==
{{Reflist}}

==Notes==
{{Reflist|group=note}}

==Other websites==
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*{{Cite web|title=The White House|url=https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/executive-office-of-the-president/|access-date=November 23, 2023|website=Executive Office of the President}}
*{{Cite web|title=The White House|url=https://www.whitehouse.gov/|access-date=November 23, 2023|website=www.whitehouse.gov}}

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