Sounds like a play on the late Playboy Playmate and actress Dorothy Stratten (whose real last name was Hoogstraten). Other than that, I've seen countless ads for the show, but wasn't planning on watching it. I figured his Cabinet position was low man on the totem poll, like Education. HUD Sec is about as nothingburger a post as you can get, mostly filled with political flunkies of no particular talent and shouldn't even be a department (nor should Education). A Zero appointee learning he'd been elevated to President, would've ran into the nearest closet, gotten into the fetal position and started sucking on his thumb.
Obama’s former boytoy Kal Penn is in this, plays a speechwriter.
Funny scene with him and Kiefer using the old “I don’t know that the person I’m talking about is the person I’m talking to” trope. He hears Kiefer puking in a bathroom stall and starts talking about how this clown HUD secretary “Kirkland” (his name is Kirkman) has no business being President.
Kirkman’s teenage son is a drug dealer. I’m gonna watch again next week, I just hope they don’t bash conservatism.
Kiefer’s mom’s dad was Tommy Douglas, first CCF (now NPD) Premier of a Canadian Province.
Complete aside but actor Julian McMahon’s dad was PM of Australia.
He vomits into the sink, does that work for you? :-)