President of the United States (Carpe Diem)



The President of the United States of America (POTUS) is the elected  and  of the. The president leads the of the  and is the  of the.

The President of the United States is considered one of the world's most powerful people, leading the world's one of only two contemporary s (the other being the . The role includes being the commander-in-chief of the world's most expensive military with the largest nuclear arsenal and leading the largest economy by real and nominal GDP. The office of the president holds significant hard and soft power both in the United States and abroad.

The president is indirectly elected by the Electoral College to a four-year term, and is one of only two nationally elected federal officers, the other being the .The Twenty-second Amendment, adopted in 1951, prohibits anyone from ever being elected to the presidency for a third full term. It also prohibits a person from being elected to the presidency more than once if that person previously had served as president, or acting president, for more than two years of another person's term as president.

Requirements to become president include being at least 35 years of age, having lived in the United States for 14 years, and being a "natural born" citizen of the United States. In all, 43 individuals have served 44 presidencies (counting Cleveland's two non-consecutive terms separately) spanning 56 full four-year terms. On January 20, 2009, became the 44th and current president. On November 6, 2012, he was re-elected and is currently serving the 57th term. The next presidential election is scheduled to take place on November 8, 2016; on January 20, 2017, the newly elected president will take office.