Historians rank Trump near bottom of U.S. presidents, Obama rises into top 10
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Via: john-russell • 5 years ago • 35 commentsBy: Brenley Goertzen (Salon)
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Former President Donald Trump was ranked near the bottom of a new list by historians surveyed on who they believe the best U.S. presidents are, and received the lowest leadership grades of any commander-in-chief over the past 150 years.
It was Trump's first appearance on C-SPAN's Historians Survey of Presidential Leadership, with the one-term president ranked 41st out of America's 45 former executives.
Rated by a group of over 140 historians, the survey ranks former U.S. presidents on 10 different leadership qualities, such as "public persuasion," "international relations" and "crisis leadership." Since 2000, C-SPAN has taken the survey after every change in White House administration.
On Wednesday, C-SPAN tweeted that the 2021 survey saw a 50 percent increase in the number of historians participating, and a big jump in the diversity of respondents — as defined by demographic information such as race, gender, age and philosophy.
The results of this year's survey indicate the divergence between Trump's standing among academics and how his followers have viewed his presidency — historians hold him in the lowest regard of any president since Reconstruction, yet he continues to hold an iron grip on leadership of the GOP and remains a frontrunner for the 2024 Republican Party presidential nomination.
He is also the only president ever to be impeached twice by the House of Representatives.
The historians rated Trump as the worst president in history on two of 10 leadership qualities: "moral authority" and "administrative skills." His strongest grade is for "public persuasion," in which he was ranked No. 32.
Barack Obama, meanwhile, rose into the top 10, climbing from No. 12 in C-Span's 2017 survey.
In individual leadership categories, Obama was ranked in the top 10 overall for "moral authority" and "economic management," and ranked third in history for "pursued equal justice for all," behind only Lincoln and Johnson.
Other modern presidents with notable standings include Ronald Reagan, who ranked No. 9; Bill Clinton at No. 19; George H.W. Bush at No. 21 and George W. Bush at No. 29.
The only president forced to resign, Richard Nixon, is rated No. 31— ten spots above Trump.
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First of all , there are only 44 presidents prior to Biden, not 45. Grover Cleveland served non consecutive terms and is both the 22nd and 24th president.
I thus assume Trump's ranking of 44th for Moral Authority puts him dead last.
Yeah it does, as it should be. The guy has absolutely no moral compass to speak of.
Even total failures like James Buchanan and Andrew Johnson were better at being President than Trump.
5 of the top ten are post ww2, 3 Democrats and 2 Republicans
Damn those CRT historians!
Well, that's not very shocking..
These are always pretty funny. President fall 9 spots over four polls despite being dead. George W. Bush goes up 6 spots for no reason other than he's not President...
Recency and fame are the tickets to good rankings. Thomas Jefferson was not a particularly great President, but he's TJ so somehow he's seventh. Grant had a nice bio written of him, so he's moved up 13 spots this century. Polk, a much more accomplished President, didn't. So he's fallen 6 spots.
The individual scores are just as bizarre. Obama 9th for public persuasion? McKinley 16th in foreign relations? That's laughable.
Obama oversaw two historic losses of Congressional seats for his party. Thanks to Obama, the Republicans reached their highest level of nationwide offices in 100 years? He's the only President I believe to ever be reelected with a lower share of the vote. The same guy who of whom it was said that the more he talked about an issue, the worse it polled for him? He's in the Top10 for persuasion? That's idiotic. McKinley won a war and negotiated the Open Door policy with China, one of the great diplomatic triumphs of the 20th century, and he's 16th in foreign relations? Just asinine.
Well at least you are smart enough not to dispute Trump's rankings.
Maybe he’s implying that Trump will work his way into the top ten over time? Lol. Nope, Trump will forever be the anchor.
he needs to be handcuffed to an anchor, let your imagination complete that scenario...
BTW, these rankings aren't too inconsistent with the presidential rankings we have been seeing for the last 3 or 4 decades.
If an honest, fair audit were performed on the 2016 vote the results would confirm that Trump did not win and thusly he was never the president under our Constitution.
Well he did claim many times the election was rigged, that's why he won.
??? What is the supporting evidence for this?
With the Trump Org going down, maybe we can finally scrape the Trump gum off of our shoes once and for all. I would love to see Trump on a freeway exit with a sign....HOMELESS AND WILL LIE FOR FOOD.