To quote Mel Brooks, "It's good to be the king!"=
Posted on 08/20/2026 5:50:53 AM PDT by Red Badger
What if I were to tell you that every single United States President, except one, are all related to each other?
This is what was revealed on a Special Episode of Secret America, called “It’s All Connected”.
Forget Republican versus Democrat. Forget conservative versus liberal. Follow the bloodline and you’ll find that nearly every American president ends up connected to the same ancestor:
King John “Lackland” of England.
From George Washington to Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama to Donald Trump. All have the same blood running through their veins.
The one famous exception?
Martin Van Buren.
The connection was uncovered in a genealogy project by BridgeAnne d’Avignon, who traced presidential ancestry through both paternal and maternal family lines. Her research concluded that 42 of the 43 presidents she examined could be traced back to King John, who ruled England more than 800 years ago.
Even presidents portrayed as political opposites turn out to be distant relatives. Donald Trump and Barack Obama, for example, have been identified in genealogical research as distant cousins through shared ancestry.
And they’re far from the only ones.
The deeper you travel into presidential genealogy, the more connections appear.
Think about what we’re supposed to believe.
America was founded by overthrowing a monarchy. We rejected kings, royal families and inherited rule. Americans would choose their leaders.
Yet generation after generation, the people reaching America’s highest office keep appearing somewhere inside the same ancestral network, with the genealogy leading back to an actual King of England.
We’re supposed to believe that’s just coincidence?
ONE CHANCE IN 96 QUINTILLION?
The calculation that Secret America showed live on their show, about this presidential bloodline, puts the odds of virtually every president sharing this ancestry and reaching the presidency purely by chance at:
1 in 96,000,000,000,000,000,000.
That’s one chance in 96 quintillion.
It’s an eye-popping number. For comparison, there are 100 billion stars in our Milky Way Galaxy. That means the odds that were calculated in relation to the Presidents’ are about 960 MILLION times the number of stars.
And maybe that’s exactly why the genealogy itself deserves attention.
We’re repeatedly told not to look too closely at connections involving powerful people.
It’s coincidence.
It’s meaningless.
Everyone is probably related if you go back far enough.
Move along.
But when nearly every person to occupy the most powerful office on Earth can be traced into the same family tree, perhaps “coincidence” isn’t the end of the conversation.
Perhaps it’s the beginning.
WHY MARTIN VAN BUREN?
Then there’s Martin Van Buren.
If everyone were connected, skeptics could simply dismiss the entire thing by saying everyone eventually shares ancestors.
But according to the famous presidential genealogy, one president didn’t.
Van Buren.
Why? How did he become President if no one else outside the bloodline could?
In 1837, Martin Van Buren ran as the Democratic candidate for President. The newly formed Whig party (Republican party did not exist yet), ran 6 regional candidates rather than a national one.
That is why he won. However, the bloodline would never allow it again. He was ousted after his first term, and it’s been the same bloodline since him as it was before him.
So out of this remarkable pattern spanning more than two centuries, one man stands outside it.
Everyone else examined?
Connected.
BLOODLINES DON’T CARE ABOUT POLITICAL PARTIES
Maybe that’s the biggest lesson.
Americans spend enormous amounts of energy fighting over Republican versus Democrat.
But blood doesn’t have a political party.
Obama and Trump can be political opposites and still be distant relatives.
Presidents separated by centuries can still share ancestors.
Families that appear unrelated today can converge when their histories are traced backward.
The faces change.
The parties change.
The campaign slogans change.
But the family tree keeps going.
And eventually, nearly every presidential branch arrives at the same place:
King John Lackland.
Secret America exposing this on their episode “It’s All Connected,” has made everyone wonder if this is the biggest conspiracy in world history.
WATCH:
VIDEO AT LINK...........................
Perhaps we’ve spent too much time looking at America’s presidents individually.
Put them all on the same family tree and suddenly the picture looks very different.
One king.
Nearly every president.
Hundreds of years of history.
And one extraordinary exception.
Martin Van Buren.
You can call it coincidence.
You can call it statistical inevitability.
But when the same bloodlines keep appearing at the highest levels of power, there’s another possibility worth considering:
Maybe it was never as random as we were told.
The ruling elite have the bloodline of cur dogs.
Perhaps Martin Van Buren wasn’t descended from King John because he was Dutch, not English? Europe’s royals were always a bit randy, and had a lot of illegitimate children. It’s not surprising that many descended from them wound up in America. Import enough non-Europeans and this can change, and likely not for the better.
Everybody alive today has probably a bilion ancestors going back to Lackland`s time. The population of the whole world wasn’t close to half that then. England had maybe 2 to 3 million. If your people came from there and belonged to the small upper or middle class you are truly related to everybody.
That is a gross exaggeration and distortion!
To be merely 4th cousins, they would all have to have a set of great-great-great-grandparents in common. Even in a single, small country like Iceland, that would not be the case. (A significant fraction of the total population of Iceland being 6th cousins, I could believe - and the country maintains a freely-accessible database so that romantic partners can check for any significant consanguinity.)
But to speak of "all Northern Europeans" being 4th or at least 5th cousins is absurd. For that statement to be true, a randomly selected person from, say, Dublin would have to always have one set of great-great-great-great-great-grandparents in common with another person from, say, Helsinki.
You might like to consider revising your claim to, for instance:
In any given medium-sized town in Northern Europe, there is an appreciable chance (~ 20%) that a randomly-selected inhabitant is fifth cousins (or closer) with another randomly-selected inhabitant from that same medium-sized town.And even that guarded statement might be true only for the beginning of the 20th century or earlier.
Regards,
U.S. Presidents ALL Related to Each Other?!
Can’t be other wise they would all be democrats.
Huh?!
Regards,
If you go back 800 years to find a common ancestor, that is about 40 generations.
I am willing to say that if Red Badger and Presbyterian Reporter went back 40 generations that we would find that we are 40th cousins, 5 times removed.
Right, which make the odds 1 in 1, not 1 in 96 quintillion.
I can see from the comments that I am not the only family historian/geneologist in the FReeper community.
I never knew until recently that the Acadians up in northern Maine/new Brunswick are basically the same as the Cajuns down in the swamps of LA.
That they both left British Canada because they were loyal to France. Some moved to Maine. Others left and went to the port of New Orleans/France and ended up in the swamps.
Almost everyone with European ancestry is related through Charlemagne.
Asian ancestry, Genghiz Khan.
Exceptions might be farflung tightknit folks like the Basques and Laplanders.
It’s all in the power of 2^n.
FFV?
Final Fantasy Five video game?..................
They are not basically the same, they are the same.
One of my sisters and a late uncle were into that stuff. It’s addictive..............
Except one.......and he’s probably a space alien...............
No such thing as a space alien it’s a democrat slogan.
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