Trump Was Incredibly Bad At Presidenting

[kpete]

Jonathan Bernstein: “I was one of the political scientists who participated in a ‘rank the presidents’ survey and it was easy to place Trump dead last, given everything. But the truth is that even if Trump had followed and accepted the law, including the Constitutional “emoluments” provision, and even if he didn’t provoke an insurrection in support of his bid to overturn an election he lost, and even if he didn’t have a history of sexual assault, and even if he didn’t regularly make bigoted remarks and encourage bigotry…he was still quite a bit worse at the regular parts of presidenting than any of the modern presidents, at least.”

“It’s hard to know where to begin, and I’m obviously not going to convince anyone in a few short paragraphs or even a full item, but even given how important all that other stuff is his gross incompetency at the job is worth remembering.”

https://politicalwire.com/2024/05/14/trump-was-incredibly-bad-at-presidenting/
https://goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/trump-was-incredibly-bad-at-presidenting?publication_id=2456093&post_id=144596097&isFreemail=true&r=2fku&triedRedirect=true

[tanyev]

1. That's because he saw the presidency as his ascendance to receive the homage

and fealty that was rightfully his all along. The concept of serving the country is abhorrent to him and any thought of competent governance is irrelevant.

[C_U_L8R]

2. We're lucky he spent so much time golfing

[twodogsbarking]

3. He had no knowledge or experience and had no interest in getting any. It was all for him.

Like Reagan in many ways but more evil.

[TSExile]

4. Infinitely more evil.

Reagan was governor of California, and before that was president of the Screen Actors Guild. So he wasn't coming in with absolutely no experience like the diarrhea stain on humanity did.

He was never a president...he just occupied the White House. He sought to divide others and not unite them. Did he ever do anything to help anyone who wasn't rich? Enough said?

[twodogsbarking]

5. Very well stated. Reagan, not unlike other Rep Presidents, was a puppet for those with the money that

control the planet.

[Ping Tung]

6. Trump himself has humbly admitted to being the GREATEST president (and World Leader) in history.

However, some disagree with his assessment and regard him as a clownish asshole.

[republianmushroom]

7. He is not telling us some thing we don't know.

Trump Was Incredibly Bad At Presidenting, Yup, very poor. Just wanting to line his own pockets and the hell with the country.. IMO

[Poiuyt]

8. I think the Biden team needs to get the word out that

Trump is officially the worst president in history. It won't make a difference to his cult, but if anyone is at all ambivalent about the election, the knowledge of just how bad Trump is might help. I've been troubled about the fact that a lot of people still think that Trump is better than Biden on the economy.