This explains a lot, actually

Forbes Magazine says that Lex Luthor was elected President in 2000.

Forbes decided to put together a list of the richest people in the world, including such luminaries as Santa Claus, Auric Goldfinger, Jay Gatsby, and Scrooge McDuck.

Lex Luthor comes in at number 8 with $4.7 billion. Forbes biography of him, however, says that he was "[f]orced to place holdings in LexCorp in blind trust after being elected president of the United States in 2000."

I have to admit the similarity is striking:



I can hardly tell a difference.

And all this time I thought Forbes was a conservative magazine.