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LetMyPeopleVote

(145,050 posts)
Mon Feb 14, 2022, 12:03 AM Feb 2022

Trump will be among the three worst presidents in American history: new book

This is after TFG gave Bannon a pardon
https://www.rawstory.com/bannon-thinks-trump-worst-president/

According to Bannon, it was COVID and George Floyd that convinced him Trump only really wanted the Oval Office when it was fun. Up until 2020, Trump was able to largely let the country run on auto-pilot. Racking up deaths was depressing.

"But Trump’s inattentiveness to the pandemic alarmed Bannon. And his response to George Floyd’s death had him increasingly convinced that Trump had lost his mind," Peters wrote. "He complained to colleagues that Trump didn’t seem interested in his job."

"Being president and doing the job of president are two different things,” Bannon claimed. “He doesn’t want to do the job of president of the United States.”.....

"Instead, Bannon said, Trump would end up going down in history as one of the two or three worst presidents ever: 'It’ll be James Buchanan, Donald Trump, and Millard Fillmore.' Having run Trump’s successful underdog bid four years earlier during its final weeks, Bannon was openly critical of how the new team was running the reelection campaign. 'Trump did not win in 2016. That’s the one thing they never embraced and understood. Hillary Clinton lost. Trump did not win,' he said."

History will not be kind to TFG

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Trump will be among the three worst presidents in American history: new book (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Feb 2022 OP
Nor to bannon, one hopes. niyad Feb 2022 #1
One does. dchill Feb 2022 #4
The Worst By A Wide Margin colsohlibgal Feb 2022 #2
Absolutely. he brought pure Cha Feb 2022 #11
... Me. Feb 2022 #12
Aloha Me Cha Feb 2022 #13
He Is Number 1 Me. Feb 2022 #3
Actually, Trump is #2 PJMcK Feb 2022 #10
Bannon is still Donnie's lackey. He owes him after pardoning him. Thomas Hurt Feb 2022 #5
I will strongly argue that Bush should be ranked LOWER than Trump WarGamer Feb 2022 #6
Not the worst Metaphorical Feb 2022 #7
Trump is an actual traitor to his country, and is off the charts on the evil scale dalton99a Feb 2022 #8
Shrub, Buchanan and Dump. roamer65 Feb 2022 #9
I think Trump was the worst simply because he tried to stage a self-coup Poiuyt Feb 2022 #14

colsohlibgal

(5,275 posts)
2. The Worst By A Wide Margin
Mon Feb 14, 2022, 12:16 AM
Feb 2022

He was Dumb, Evil to the bone, a man who managed multiple bankruptcies despite inheriting 100s of millions from Daddy.

The others were largely in over their heads but nowhere near as crooked or stupid as Fat Donnie. He stands alone at the deep bottom of the barrel. A 100% despicable excuse for a human being.

Cha

(297,034 posts)
11. Absolutely. he brought pure
Mon Feb 14, 2022, 04:22 AM
Feb 2022

Evil into our White House.. him and his ugly spawn & the Russian Puppeteers.. and all the Evil Nazi Shit.

A traitor to his country and responsible for thousands of deaths because he lied about COVID.. didn't want to hurt his damn poll numbers.. And, look what happened to the soulless MF.

And, it's still going on.

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
5. Bannon is still Donnie's lackey. He owes him after pardoning him.
Mon Feb 14, 2022, 12:45 AM
Feb 2022

The lush will have to make this up to the Pig in some way and Bannon will flip flop just as soon as the Pig squeals.

WarGamer

(12,425 posts)
6. I will strongly argue that Bush should be ranked LOWER than Trump
Mon Feb 14, 2022, 01:15 AM
Feb 2022

illegal, immoral wars that killed or displaced millions... the unrest in the region led to Civil Wars and terrorist uprisings in at least 7 countries and the formation of ISIS...

I'm fine with Trump being SECOND worst.

Oh and don't forget the Bush economic collapse.

Metaphorical

(1,602 posts)
7. Not the worst
Mon Feb 14, 2022, 01:30 AM
Feb 2022

Though close. Buchanan laid the foundation for the Civil War, was consistently drunk, was mired in scandal, and had almost no redeeming achievements in his term. Trump ironically did not enmesh the country in another war, which was about the only thing that keeps him from achieving bottom, and that record occurred primarily because he was too inept to even pull it off. George W. Bush had one shining moment (arguably) in his term with his response to 9/11, and while I think he too was inept, I don't really thing Bush was so much evil as simply clueless and lacking in his ability to say no to his "advisors". Trump was corrupt and evil, but Buchanan may have been worse.

Poiuyt

(18,122 posts)
14. I think Trump was the worst simply because he tried to stage a self-coup
Mon Feb 14, 2022, 03:56 PM
Feb 2022

Yes, Buchanan and A Johnson were bad, but no other president in our history engaged in conspiracy to commit sedition. That alone should place him at the bottom. Add all the other stuff (corruption, separating children from their parents, inept response to the pandemic, etc.), and I don't see how anyone could be worse. And by a long, long shot.

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