I have painstakingly compiled a list of presidents worse than Donald Trump. Please click to see.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

1. I never imagined

It would be that many.

[imanamerican63]

2. I could have not believed this in million years!

[underpants]

3. That face

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. Trump makes Bush look like a sympathetic character.

Wow, that comes close to saying something nice about him.

[FarPoint]

6. tRump sure does make*bush look reasonable.

We are so drowning in the Swamp.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

10. I can imagine watching a ball game with Bush

Bush would think about pinching the waitress in the ass but ultimately decide not to. Trump would go ahead and do it and start a bar room fight.

[RKP5637]

30. Trump, would start trying to hump the waitress. n/t

[DemocratSinceBirth]

32. He is absolute moral trainwreck.

[Grammy23]

52. But first he would eat a handful of tictacs, then grab her by the ....uhm...

You know which part. Then start kissing because he just can't help himself. But it is okay because they let him do that. When you are a star, they let you do what you want.

Sure they do, Donnie. They can't resist your touch, can they?

[RKP5637]

61. Oh, and he is just so good looking and such a body.

[xxqqqzme]

36. He would put his hand

on her waist, let it slide down over her ass until his fingers came to rest on her inner thigh.

(Takes a woman to know the moves of scumbags)

[DemocratSinceBirth]

42. Trump's a moral trainwreck and a misogynist.

I have to question the self respect of any woman who supports him.

[Alice11111]

46. ...and blame the gal he pinched, Obama, & fake news.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

57. That's probably not where Trump would be pinching her.

[leftofcool]

28. Bush did one thing really good

He stood on a rubble and brought the country together for a short time.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

29. Can you imagine if Trump was president in the aftermath of 9-11 ?

We might have seen our own Kristallnacht with Muslims as this century's victims.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

43. He might have stood on the rubble with a bullhorn, but

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he'd have talked only about the damage to his properties and how he was going to rebuild them and they would be beautiful, the best hotels.

[Alice11111]

47. GW definitely wasn't a racist.

[AtheistCrusader]

58. Yes, he treated Arab/Muslim nations/people so well, and the torture was for their own good.

Kinda shaking my head at this thread. Trump's a sack of shit, but he isn't awash in the blood of hundreds of thousands of innocents (yet).

How quickly we forget.

[mucifer]

64. trump hasn't started a war for no reason... yet

So in that regard for now trump is better than w. Also, katrina.

That said there are plenty of worse things trump has done than w.

[dalton99a]

4. Extensive analysis confirms your list is accurate

[leftstreet]

7. Thank you for the comprehensive research

[syringis]

8. Unless...

...you go back in History very far in the past, everywhere in the world, it will be hard to find worse than Trump...

I kept searching, the only ones I found where not presidents but imperors...

I went back till Roman Empire : Caligula, Tiberius, Nero...

And still, not as bad as the current phenomenon

[Leith]

31. Ath This Point, We Will Be Lucky If

he doesn't turn into Genghis Khan.

[syringis]

38. I think he is too cowardly

But if you mean Trump pursues a sort of scorched earth policy, than yes, he has already started.

Destroying whatever he can, especially if it is an Obama's achievement.

[Pope George Ringo II]

9. The jury really is still out on how he compares to Buchanan

Honestly, we're going to have to wait until he's out of office to make that comparison.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

11. He was awful but his crime was to ignore the conditions leading up to the Civil War.

Trump would have inflamed them.

[Pope George Ringo II]

15. The worst human being is Trump, no question.

I'd take Nixon's worst day in a heartbeat over this jerk.

But Buchanan really kept the nation on the path to civil war and hundreds of thousands dead. That's a heck of a yardstick to beat in 8 months.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

18. A lot of leaders of that era were kicking the can down the road with their compromises.

People aren't chattel whose very freedom can ever be a bargaining chip.

[Pope George Ringo II]

23. Buchanan's weakness has always been his defining characteristic.

Trump is certainly setting the Presidential standard for incompetence and corruption, but 8 months in I don't think he's passed Buchanan. And I want to be clear that Trump started by undermining the foundations of the democratic process in a way Buchanan didn't.

Let's put it this way: If Trump falls over dead with a heart attack tomorrow, I'm not convinced the damage he's done would be more than the damage Buchanan wrought in four years. He's on track for it, but I don't think we can genuinely say he's there yet. And if he does die or resign tomorrow, Pence will start his own quest to zoom past Buchanan, but that's another question.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

26. Those are comforting thoughts.

Would you agree that Trump has the worst character of all our presidents?

Andrew Jackson and Andrew Johnson come close but we must judge them within the context of their era.

[Pope George Ringo II]

34. You wanted cheery talking about Trump?

I've said at least twice here I think Trump is the worst human being ever to occupy the Oval Office. Johnson was bad enough, but Jackson was a complete SOB, although he had a level of integrity Trump can't even comprehend, let alone aspire to. Nixon was the worst of my lifetime when this year started, but that's a fond memory at this point. Guys like Harding and Grant seem to have done better at collecting scoundrels than being one themselves.

Frankly, I do think the only thing Trump needs to pass Buchanan on the worst President list is time. I just don't think he's had enough yet.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

41. Trump carries himself more like a Mafia Don than an actual civil servant.

[Alice11111]

49. If the courts hadn't slowed DT down, he would be Sheriff

Joe on a national scale, with Muslims & Hispanics, tent cities or worse.

[Pope George Ringo II]

55. They'd be the best tent cities. Yuge.

And of course a major reason the courts shot him down is because the moron said publicly he wanted to to illegal things.

But attempted/potential evil is one thing. To pass Buchanan you have to actually accomplish negative things. Give him time.

[Alice11111]

65. Believe me.I know more about tent cities than anyone.I'm the smartest about tent cities. Believe me.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

12. Was Buchanan an enormous asshole, or just incredibly inept?

Because I think Trump carries both to the table.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

20. Buchanan was incredibly inept but he doesn't seem to have been

a narcissistic asshole who violated every norm of human decency. Trump, however, does have that special quality going for him.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. Buchanan sucked, but I don't think he was as bad as Trump.

The criticism of Buchanan is mainly based on his acceptance of slavery in the southern states and his belief that he didn't have the power to do anything about it. He basically sat on his ass and passively let secession and the Civil War happen. https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/james-buchanan-why-is-he-considered-americas-worst-president/ He also appears to have leaned on the Supreme Court to decide the Dred Scott case the way they did in order to have a "bipartisan" result, and his inaction on economic issues contributed to a near-collapse of the economy. It seemed that every time he did make a decision it turned out to be the wrong one. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-worst-president-james-buchanan-214252

Buchanan, despite his stellar resume, seems to have been spectacularly inept and passive in the face of crises - but as far as one can tell, he was not intentionally destructive. He was also not an egomaniac whose decisions were motivated by nothing more than self-aggrandizement and self-enrichment. I think the ghost of James Buchanan is already partying in the White House attic with fellow bad presidents Franklin Pierce and Warren G. Harding.

[Pope George Ringo II]

19. No doubt Buchanan's family popped the champagne last November

And I think we all know who probably thinks the Dred Scott decision had many sides. I'd also add Hoover to the list of Presidents with awesome resumes and nightmarish administrations.

In all candor, we're eight months in and IMO there's a serious argument about whether he's worse than the guy who set the stage for civil war. I just think we're going to have to wait to see how it really shakes out to make that call. Consider Grant's administration. It was held together with chewing gum and a couple of staples, but it wasn't really stressed by external challenges the way a Hoover Administration was. The challenges facing Trump are not encouraging, but I think he has to actually fail them before we can definitively call him worse than Buchanan.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

22. I think what the question boils down to is whether a president

screws the pooch in his capacity as president, or whether he is a completely horrible human being. While it may be too soon to evaluate the damage Trump has done/will do as president, it is incontrovertible that he is a horrible human being, probably the worst person ever to hold the office. And it is likely that his personal awfulness will wreak enormous damage because he combines it with vast ineptitude and ignorance.

[Pope George Ringo II]

27. He's definitely the worst person

And I see no reason for optimism. But I think he has to actually wreak that damage before we can call him worse than Buchanan.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

44. Even Nixon had redeeming qualities. He was a doting father in a real sense.

He also felt bad about doing wrong even as he did wrong.

[Pope George Ringo II]

48. The Checkers Speech really humanizes Nixon like nothing else. It's quite touching.

But I'm 46. Say what you will about Iran-Contra or the Iraq war, Watergate was the modern standard for Presidential corruption until Trump.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

67. The irony of that era is that Nixon did have a kind of a slush fund.

[kimbutgar]

13. Warren Harding was odious

Teapot dome scandal ( looks quaint now ) fathering a child outside of his marriage ( nan Britton)but that is tame compared to twitler.

[SCantiGOP]

39. Look further into Harding

He was - relative to his time - somewhat progressive.

Most of the scandals occurred after he died and, while he may have been complicit and there is no doubt he was personally corrupt, involved his staff.

Buchanan, Nixon and Bush are, in my opinion, way worse than Harding.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

45. He invited Booker T. Washington to the White House.

Wilson tried to kick African Americans out of the civil service.

[SCantiGOP]

62. Wilson was a Confederate

Most people know that he was President of Princeton, so a northern college professor should be a liberal, right? But it is usually our early beginnings that define us.
Wilson was born in Virginia in 1856, and his family moved to Augusta, GA. His father was a minister and was instrumental in splitting the Presbyterian Church into Northern and Southern factions in 1861. He served as a chaplain in the CSA. In 1870 they moved to Columbia SC for four years, when Woodrow was 14-18 years old and the South was occupied by US troops during the Reconstruction.

If there was any doubt about his loyalties, it should be noted that he arranged for a private screening of "The Birth of a Nation" at the White House. The movie was a celebration of the necessity for and morality of the founding of the KKK. He was probably the most pro-Confederacy President since Jefferson Davis.

[TheBlackAdder]

14. It matches the one I compiled.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

66. I hope your research wasn't as painstaking as mine. It took months.

[Honeycombe8]

17. You HAVE to stop with these lengthy posts. We can only read so much! :) nt

[George II]

21. Surprising that he's already surpassed baby bush as the worst in only seven months.

[NCjack]

24. This list will become the "must have" for all serious list collectors. Kudos. nt

[heaven05]

25. yep

and this horror show the deplorables helped create, along with FOX, MSNBC and the rest of mainstream media, will end up with the deplorables also being attacked by their fuhrer, whether financially with our taxes going higher while his megarich friends taxes go lower, the deplorables kids or them sent to sacrifice their lives on the GOP altar of greed and avarice with a WAR perpetrated and started by a idiot potus trying to keep his job.

They are just too stupid, ignorant or just plain hateful racist to know it yet.

[RKP5637]

33. This list is so extensive, it deserves a Library of Congress number for historical reference! n/t

[bleedinglib]

35. Bush built

a multi-million $$$$ library for the book "Peter the Goat"
Forrest trump has a problem, having never read any books ???
I know? he can build an aviary? you know

TWEET, TWEET

[sandensea]

59. Somewhere in Moscow,

someone's scouting locations for the Trump Presidential LIEbrary.

[Soxfan58]

37. Actually I think

( blank space) is better and more qualified... And a hell of a lot easier to look at.

[sandensea]

40. To be fair, there was one (though Cheeto's doing his best to catch up):

[MFM008]

50. You know

No. I detested W a lot. But even he can't come close to the venal blob of soulless evil that is the MAGAt. ( maggot).
He truly is the worst person in some sort of authority in the world.

[sandensea]

56. I'd absolutely agree.

Except a) Cheeto (luckily) is just too inept to get most of his craven agenda through. Dubya, on the other hand, was personally inept; but had a top-notch crew of log-rollers and Macchiavellis.

and b) there's been no 9/11, no Iraq/Aghani invasions (or the equivalent), or $20-trillion Wall Street collapse - yet.

Most of those caveats, of course, are owed simply to the fact that Cheeto has only been in office 7 months. By 2020, he may very well end making Dubya look like Bill Clinton.

[ailsagirl]

51. LOL!!

It's funny but it's not, ya know?

[niyad]

53. I heartily commend you on the breathtaking amount of effort required for this!

[Lint Head]

54. Looks like about 3 million.

[Turbineguy]

60. You must be

exhausted!

[muriel_volestrangler]

63. Presidents Duvalier, pere et fils

President Idi Amin
President Saddam Hussein

I'm struggling to find more that actually had the title 'president' - Hitler, Pol Pot, Stalin and Mao didn't, as far as I can tell. I guess there have been a few more genocidal ones.