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Democrats_win

(6,539 posts)
Mon Feb 25, 2019, 02:11 PM Feb 2019

Historical Ranking of Trump's pResidency

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Donald_Trump#Historical_evaluations_and_public_opinion
FYI

"As of February 2019, there has been several preliminary assessments of Trump's term among historians and political scientists.

A 2018 poll administered by the American Political Science Association (APSA) among political scientists specializing in the American presidency had Donald Trump appearing for the first time.Republican survey respondents rated him 40th out of 44th, Independents/Other respondents rated him 43th out of 44th, while Democratic historians rated him 44th out of 44th.

Siena College Research Institute's 6th presidential expert poll, released in February 2019, placed Donald Trump 42th out of 44th — ahead of Andrew Johnson and James Buchanan."


You might recall that Republican columnist Max Boot called Trump the worst PERSON to ever be president. (Washington Post 10/3/18)

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Historical Ranking of Trump's pResidency (Original Post) Democrats_win Feb 2019 OP
A little more time in office and he'll beat Buchanan's record by a country mile. The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2019 #1
Yeah. underpants Feb 2019 #4
Are we sure those weren't Trump U polls? 43th? 42th? Wounded Bear Feb 2019 #2
Damn, can't even beat a guy only in office for 31 days aeromanKC Feb 2019 #3
Harding, Pierce, Buchanan, Johnson and Trump are in a historical race to the bottom. IluvPitties Feb 2019 #5
Bush II is the worst. It's not even close. Shemp Howard Feb 2019 #6

underpants

(182,769 posts)
4. Yeah.
Mon Feb 25, 2019, 02:20 PM
Feb 2019

He’s getting worse by the day. Historians tend to like big bold moves regardless of the consequences. The NK thing would be considered big. Trade is not going to be seen as a plus for him I don’t think. ISIS has always been a waiting game and someone is going to be POTUS when it finally runs out of gas (or becomes akin to the Taliban). The SC justices will be a plus but that’s due to timing and seriously crappy actions by Mitch.

aeromanKC

(3,322 posts)
3. Damn, can't even beat a guy only in office for 31 days
Mon Feb 25, 2019, 02:19 PM
Feb 2019

Also ouch that all of these rankings have him in the 40's. That's going to leave a mark.

Shemp Howard

(889 posts)
6. Bush II is the worst. It's not even close.
Mon Feb 25, 2019, 02:34 PM
Feb 2019

James Buchanan bumbled his way into the Civil War. And Andrew Johnson bumbled Reconstruction. But the key word there is "bumbled". Neither man lied. Neither man plotted to get the country into a war. Neither man was evil.

On the other hand, Bush II lied. He deliberately got the country into a war, a bloody and terrible war. I'm referring to Iraq, of course. Bush II is a war criminal of the highest level.

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