Trump Might Not Like This: Meet America's Best and Worst Presidents Ever Ever

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Abraham Lincoln, who preserved the Union and ended slavery, is our greatest president while immediate predecessor James Buchanan, who dithered and dallied while war clouds gathered, is the worst of 43 presidents.

Ronald Reagan ranks ninth while Barack Obama ranks 12th.

These are some of the headline findings of C-SPAN’s third survey of historians on presidential leadership, released back in 2017. The survey, following one in 2000 and one in 2009, didn’t include Donald Trump, the 44th man to hold the office.

Who make up the Top 10 presidents on the Presidential Historians Survey? They are, in descending order: Lincoln, George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Harry Truman, Thomas Jefferson, John F. Kennedy, Reagan, and Lyndon B. Johnson.

Obama followed Woodrow Wilson (at 11) but beat contemporaries Bill Clinton (15) and George W. Bush (33). He also bested James Monroe (13) and James Madison (17).

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/trump-might-not-meet-americas-best-and-worst-presidents-ever-ever-124196

[llmart]

1. Reagan doesn't deserve to be in the top ten.

Reagan did NOT end the Cold War. Sorry. They can shovel that shit to the ignoramuses who adore him.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. Yeah that's why I omitted that phrase in my post.

That and the author talking down Obama.

[dhol82]

3. How the hell did Reagan get such a high spot?

The man was a menace both past and present for what he did.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. The author is a conservative who writes for the Heritage Foundation:

Lee Edwards is the distinguished fellow in conservative thought at The Heritage Foundation's B. Kenneth Simon Center for Principles and Politics. A leading historian of American conservatism, Edwards is the author or editor of 20 books, including biographies of Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater and Edwin Meese III as well as histories of The Heritage Foundation and the movement as a whole.

https://nationalinterest.org/profile/lee-edwards

The National Interest was founded by Irving Kristol and its honorary chairman is Henry Kissinger, so there's that...

[dhol82]

7. Only possible way that could have happened.

Thank you.

[llmart]

8. Thanks for that.

Why am I not surprised? Conservatives have been trying to rewrite history about his awful presidency for decades now. Unfortunately for them, there are still plenty of us who remember how awful Reagan was for our country.

[Midnight Writer]

5. Reagan?

[Turbineguy]

6. So trump didn't even win

the worst president contest. What a fucking loser.

[NCjack]

9. Trump is not eligible, as he is not a legitimate president.

[milestogo]

10. Reagan and Johnson rank higher than Obama? That is nuts.