Donald Trump ranked as worst US president in history, with Joe Biden 14th ( www.theguardian.com )

Survey of 154 scholars places 45th president behind even ‘historically calamitous chief executives’ linked to civil war

Donald Trump finished 45th and rock bottom of a list ranking US presidents by greatness, trailing even “historically calamitous chief executives” who failed to stop the civil war or botched its aftermath.

Worse for the likely Republican nominee this year, his probable opponent, Joe Biden, debuted at No 14.

“Biden’s most important achievements may be that he rescued the presidency from Trump, resumed a more traditional style of presidential leadership and is gearing up to keep the office out of his predecessor’s hands this fall,” Justin Vaughn and Brandon Rottinghaus, the political scientists behind the survey, wrote in the Los Angeles Times.

YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH ,

How the hell is racist ass, first amendment hating, flu spreading, ww one involving, klan loving Wilson so fucking high?

CraigeryTheKid ,

Obama seems too high? Other than being a relief after Bush2, what did he do? Just ACA?

PhlubbaDubba ,

His achievements were a lot more covert since republican opposition left him doing most of his work via EO.

One thing he did was a small program that allowed poor folks to get cell phone access.

gloss ,

"Scholars? Pffft. What do they know???" Every Trumper in existence. And they mean it.

Meanwhile PragerU will do their own survey with a hand picked group of Magats and right this injustice. The only question is if Reagan or Trump will be at the number one spot.

Varyk ,

Sorry, the rapist elector fraud is getting a bad score?

AlwaysNowNeverNotMe ,
@AlwaysNowNeverNotMe@kbin.social avatar

Yes the thrice married rapist draft dodger con artist was ranked poorly

Varyk ,

Marry at your leisure; do not rape

bostonbananarama ,

Honestly, if you talk to most presidential historians they will tell you that you need about 20 years to pass before you can accurately assess a president. There's too many unknowns that will come to light only years or decades after a term ends, Eisenhower is a great example of this. So these rankings are likely to change over the years.

Although, having seen Trump's predilection for fraud, decit, and self-serving, I'd be shocked if he rebounds as more information comes out.

Brokkr ,

In 20 years, we could be up to 48 presidents or more, so you're right, trump's rating could get even lower. Hopefully no one beats him.

perviouslyiner ,

In 20 years, the number of presidents might not have increased.

jmcs ,

Even if the US falls into a dictatorship it's not very likely that Trump makes it to 97.

perviouslyiner ,

good point, surprised he made it through the stresses of being president once.

BassTurd ,

It's not stressful when you don't do anything and don't care about anything and others around you.

homesweethomeMrL ,

Exactly he spent four years being applauded and complaining about the food.

EvacuateSoul ,

Can you elaborate on Eisenhower, please?

bostonbananarama ,

Eisenhower was always seen as aloof, sort of a figurehead, during his presidency. However, years after, once his papers were made public, a much different view of Eisenhower started to take shape. He was seen more as a hands-on leader. I believe he was in the 15-20th range in the 80s, but by 2000 was up to 9th, and recently up to 5th (8th in current poll).

Here's a preview of a journal article that touches on it a bit.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1901942

ObviouslyNotBanana ,
@ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world avatar

14th worst?

brlemworld ,

I would have put Reagan way further down the list.

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