Is the US president appointed or elected?

Asked by JLeslie (65418) January 21st, 2019 from iPhone

This is a vocabulary question.

Which word is correct?

Recently, on another Q, a jelly wrote the US President is appointed, and it just sounded odd to me. I don’t remember hearing that word used for the US president.

The jelly cited the electoral collage, but they vote too, so it still seemed to me our president is elected.

What’s correct? Correct in terms of proper, customary, terminology for describing the election of the president. I’m NOT talking about giving me an explanation of how the EC, the indirect vote, and the US as a republic works, I’m only asking in writing and speech is it correct to say a president is appointed or elected?

I see the arguments, an example against what I’m thinking might be the president appoints a Supreme Court justice, but there is still a vote done to confirm him or her, but that’s a confirmation vote for the appointment, it’s different.