Well, at least we know how that happened now...
Smallville started in 2001. Its tenth season started in 2010 and ended in 2011. Seven years later, Lex Luthor was being sworn in as president -- in 2018. Presidents are sworn in / inaugurated in late January, the year after they are elected -- thus, Lex was elected in 2017. Note that the election years in the Smallville universe are one year later than ours from early season 6 onwards, due to the Dark Thursday invasion and the devastation caused by Zod.
In other words, Smallville's 2017 presidential election is the equivalent of our world's 2016 election.
In other words, Lex Luthor likely ran as a Democrat again (like he did way back when in season 5, in the Kansas Senate bid where he ended up in a race against Jonathan Kent), except in Smallville-land...
...Lex Luthor set Hillary Clinton on fire during the Democratic primaries, and in the general election he beat Donald Trump into the floor.
And that's how Lex Luthor won the U.S. presidency in 2017.
...Yep.
Just sayin'.
~Jo
In other words, Smallville's 2017 presidential election is the equivalent of our world's 2016 election.
In other words, Lex Luthor likely ran as a Democrat again (like he did way back when in season 5, in the Kansas Senate bid where he ended up in a race against Jonathan Kent), except in Smallville-land...
...Lex Luthor set Hillary Clinton on fire during the Democratic primaries, and in the general election he beat Donald Trump into the floor.
And that's how Lex Luthor won the U.S. presidency in 2017.
...Yep.
Just sayin'.
~Jo