Experts Have Definitively Ranked Trump The Worst US President Of All Time
And there have been some BAD presidents.
It’s President’s Day in the US, and to celebrate the occasion a group of academics have banded together to rank Trump as the worst president of all time. They also made him a report card for his first year, and it’s, uh, not good.
In a document titled “Greatness.pdf”, experts from the American Political Science Association have rated the “greatness” of all American presidents on a scale of 1-100. Lincoln came first with a score of 95, Obama came in eighth with a score of 71, just ahead of Reagan. Trump came in dead last with a score of… 12.
That’s lower than James Buchanan, who was in power in the 1860s when the country descended into civil war, and William Henry Harrison, who was in office for only a month because he died of a cold he caught after he refused to wear an overcoat at his inauguration during the freezing Washington Winter.
Trump the worst president? I mean I’ll leave it up to folks to decide the exact ranking, but Buchanan ushered us into a Civil War… I’m just saying. https://t.co/GlbBBf8Onu
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) 19 February 2018
As for Trump’s report card, he got an F for foreign policy leadership and embodying institutional norms, and a D for legislative accomplishments and communicating with the public, which all adds up to an F overall.
Of course, despite being run by “experts”, this survey is pretty cooked. “Greatness” is hardly an objective or easily definable measure, and its vagueness is illustrated by the fact that presidents who have been dead for over a century have nonetheless managed to make significant gains in greatness since the last survey in 2014.
My favorite part of this idiotic presidential ranking is that in four years, Ulysses S. Grant, who has been dead for 133 years, jumped seven slots. For no reason. https://t.co/UP3KDIXphB
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) 19 February 2018
Then again, Trump is literally spending President’s Day playing golf while elsewhere in the country, thousands of people attend the funerals of the kids killed in a school shooting enabled by Trump’s reticence to do anything about gun control. Somehow, he manages to make 12/100 on “greatness” seem generous.
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