Former Georgia Governor and current Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue is serving as tonight’s designated survivor during President Trump’s first State of the Union address.
For those who aren’t aware of how fake President Kiefer Sutherland Tom Kirkman took office, one member of the president’s Cabinet sits out the speech in a safe, undisclosed location in the event of a disaster at the U.S. Capitol. This practice has its roots in the Cold War, stemming from the Presidential Succession Act of 1947.
If you’re wondering how Secretary Perdue’s night will play out, he will be called “Mr. President,” if only for a few hours in a location tucked away from the world. The running joke on Twitter is that if the government fails, we’ll still have chicken. He’s not one of those Purdues, and Georgians know good and well he’d prefer to have us all go fish.